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Foxpro arrays vs. Clipper arrays
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From
21/08/2001 13:09:47
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
To
21/08/2001 12:12:52
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00546619
Message ID:
00546848
Views:
18
>>>Emmanuel,
>>>
>>>Thanks for your suggestion regarding combined declarations and assignments. Any other features you would like to see added - possibly from other languages like C++, VB, Java, or other?
>>
>>I would like to have a compiler option that forces the programmer to declare each and every variable. I believe "strong typing" in VFP 7 doesn't yet go this far.
>>
>>Hilmar.
>
>Sssh. They might hear you :) I'm glad it's not very strict in VFP7.
>Cetin

Well, I was actually thinking it might be nice to have it as an option. So the programmer can force himself to declare all variables, so to speak. To maintain compatibility with old code, even the default should be not to enforce variable declarations.

Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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