Ramil,

Do a search for 'strong typing' in the VFP 7 help. It gives a good explanation of VFP's support of the AS clause.

John

>Hi all,
>
>What is the difference when declaring a variable using AS option and not using it?
>
>

>local m.myInteger
>?type('m.myInteger') && 'L'
>
>local m.myOtherInteger AS Integer
>?type('m.myOtherInteger') && 'L'
>

>
>I was hoping that on the second declaration, m.myOtherInteger would have defaulted to 0. Aside from knowing that the variable will become an integer somewhere in the code, I don't see any advantage to declaring it with the AS keyword.
>
>Thoughts please.