>Well, think about it a little. On the command line the object is actually created. In code that's not the case. It would surely be nice to have, and perhaps we'll see it in a future version and in VFP7 you could check the syntax in the command window, but I'd think that it would be fairly tricky to do in an editing window.
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Doug,
VC++ & VB already do it in an editor window, and have for a while. And, according to reply from Chris, VFP7 does work in a editor with proper declaration...so it sounds great to me.


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>>>OPTIONAL NATIVE COMPILER
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>>Will never happen...use VC++ for that, and be glad VFP is not going to rely on CLR. :)
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>You know, I think there's an outside chance we could get this in a future version. You'd probably need some sort of compiler directive that would be on the order of SET MACRO SUBSTITUTION ON/OFF where the compiler could check to see if you're using '&' or other p-code-dependent type commands. That and making sure that all variables and their types were pre-declared ....
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Well, I would certainly not mind the native compile option, but it falls into the 'I'll believe it when I see it' category :)