João

The strong typing really only applies to

1) COM interfaces to allow other languages to more easily use components developed in VFP.

2) used by intellisense

VFP memvars a still weakly typed. execution time and code size doesn't change.

local i as integer
i = "see I'm still really a weakly typed memvar"

>With VFP 7.0 we can define memory variables indicating their types,
> I would like to know from yours experiencies, if is there some real gain
> or loss in coding in such manner ??
>
> - The size of the final executable is smaller ?
> - The speed of execution is increasead ?
> - Can this can improve debugging time ?