>>I've been happily using what I thought was strong variable typing in VFP9 since it was released.
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>>Today I just happened to assign a numeric value to a string variable (declared AS STRING) and nothing happened. For some reason that really got my interest and I looked in the help, and lo and behold strong typing in VFP9 doesn't do anything except apparently kick in intellisense during coding and make developers think strong typing actually exists in VFP..??
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>>Here I've been touting strong typing as one of the selling points for VFP9 development.
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>>Am I missing something?
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>>Try assigning the wrong data type to something in a .NET language - strong typing!
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>VFP is not a strong type language. It was discussed here few weeks ago. As you correctly observed, all as String, etc. is just for intellisense.
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>Though there is something in FOR EACH loop (FOXOBJECT)... Don't recall particular circumstances where it's needed...
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>BTW, I think it was added in VFP8, not VFP9.

For some reason I thought it was in VFP9. Maybe that was the first time I noticed it was available.

Seems like this was named by a marketing dweeb since it really isn't strong typing at all.

Oh well.