>Walter,
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>>FWIW, I only consider it a misfeature because VFP doesn't do implicit type conversions elsewhere (ala VB). I like implicit type conversions, it keeps your code from being litterd with ALLTRIM(STR()), TRANSFORM(), VAL(), and soforth, but this the fact that this case is so isolated makes it a 'misfeature', IMO.
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>The closest thing to implicit type conversions is the TRANSFORM function IMO.
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>Walter,

TRANSFORM is Explicit.