Exactly. The following VFP8 code confirms that.

oObj = CREATEOBJECT("Empty")
? ADDPROPERTY(oObj, "cMyProp", "")   && Returns .T.
? TYPE([ADDPROPERTY(oObj, "cMyProp", "")])   && Returns 'L'

>Vlad,
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>Strictly speaking, 'AddProperty' is an object method, not a VFP function (at least in VFP's terminology). So I think the difference is in that. Is there a true VFP built-in 'function' where Type() does not run the function to get the return type?
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>I don't think you can compare a UDF with an object method. They're really two different animals.
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>Alan
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