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>This phrase intrigued me in your reply: "no silly error messages anymore because I got the type wrong." Uh, would you rather not know? Or you really, really enjoy debugging runtime errors? <g>
But that's the great thing about loose typing - you can't *get* the type wrong because the type is whatever you say it is when you use it <s>
I take a back seat to no one in the old-school non-engineered sloppiness of my programming style and i still just don't get the idea that somehow an IDE like VS that practically sits on your lap and licks your ear to guide you through not making dumb run-time errors and uses strong typing which with the intellisense takes me less time to enforce than just typing the extra characters for Hungarian notation is somehow a burden.
I *want* the compiler (and in fact the IDE catches a lot of dumb stuff I do before I even try to compile it) to save me from myself. When I get a compile error (or god help me a runtime error) in VFP it is time consuming. When I get a compile error in VS I double click it, it takes me to the error and I fix it.
Strong typing in VFPs rather paultry IDE would be a pain indeed but I haven't even noticed it as an inconvenience in .NET
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