What are you talking about?

VFP catches those errors when you try to close the method editor. If you are referring to references created in a method, then yes, you are correct.

However, the advantage of not having a stricter compiler is the benefit of having macro expansion - a benefit which far outweighs the type of compiler you are talking about.

>One disadvantage of using Foxpro versus a stricter compiler is you can have errors that are typos, etc., that Foxpro doesn't catch that a compiler in a language with stricter typing will catch.
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>Is there a third party tool out there for FoxPro that can do some of this type of checking?
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>Bruce Strom