I agree that _VFP.LanguageOption is pretty much useless. I not only wish that this option be trapped by the compiler, but that I could force variables to be stringly typed (no variant variables).

>Not declaring variables is a bad programming practice, you are right ! The problem is that VFP let you do it.
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>In C# for example there is no such thing as private variables.
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>The _VFP.LanguageOption is useless, you should read my reponse to Jim Nelson about it in this tread.