Back in the DOS days when I switched from Clipper 87 to 5.2, I turned on one of the compiler options that tossed up a warning if it found a variable un-declared. At first it was a real PITA to deal with, but eventually you found yourself writing much tighter code - the apps I put out were that much cleaner, ran faster and were easier to "grok" after a time. It would be nice if VFP had a compiler option or SET ABUSIVE ON setting that would force us to declare everything. That's one thing I truly miss...

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