Hi,

Reading the article "Getting the Power, Part 1" (may 2001 issue of FoxTalk http://www.pinnaclepublishing.com/FT/FTMag.nsf/0/E96FE3EFD33230D485256A4800536686!open&login), I couldn't understand (pardom my ignorance) the advantage of writing a FLL instead of a DLL. The only reason for using such type of library call (as I understood) was to bypass some of the problems VFP has with data types. The autor (Robert Abram) says:

"But, FoxPro falls short in a few things I'd consider natural to have in a language. Those things would be native structure support, true pointer handling, and function callback ability, among others. Will FoxPro ever have those features? I can't say for sure, but I doubt it—some because they don't fit into the FoxPro as a language philosophy, others because they're not practical to add."

Am I wrong or, if VFP had strong data typing, structures... (again!), perhaps we would have a better paved way to go, and wouldn't need FLLs at all?

Fernando