It also used for COM objects Type Library Strong Typing.

>My understanding too, and only to support Intellisense.
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>John
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>>>Ramil,
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>>>Do a search for 'strong typing' in the VFP 7 help. It gives a good explanation of VFP's support of the AS clause.
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>>>John
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>>If I understood the Help correctly, this is really useful only when used in conjunction with classes or objects but not for native datatype variables?