>>>Stephane,
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>>>I haven't tried it myself, but is the _VFP.LanguageOptions feature (new in VFP7) of any help in this?
>>>
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>>Interesting, I >thought< this was added at some point. However, I'm not sure how it works. I created a new project and added code to a PRG:
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>>lcTest = "Hello!"
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>>MESSAGEBOX(lcTest)
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>>I set _VFP.LanguageOptions = 1 and built an EXE. No errors.
>
>Ah, it helps to read the help file <g> - this is a runtime only setting; that is, it won't flag it unless you run it. Just a bit better than useless (but not much)...

Well I don't know about that... Sure, design time would be best, but it is upon running that people encounter the bad behaviour, and this can, at least, save lots of hair-pulling for hard-to-find typos as were described earlier in this thread.

I don't know what the Help is getting at regarding its note at the bottom, though.