Hi kevin,

>It all comes down to the same thing really, the developer. You are clearly able to comfortably code with no quibble using weak-typing, but the next man may disagree.
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>I think it's what you're used to, for some people strong-typing could be ideal in their situation, for others it could be a pain in the arse.
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>It's like a lot of these things, developer preference and viewpoint always rule in the end.

What I tried to outline here is that with a few new features in the VFP IDE the problems of developers making type mistakes could be reduced to a point where the problem is virtually insignificant. If the IDE contains additional intelligence to do type checking without VFP actually beeing strong typed the argument of catching these problems becomes irrelevant.

And if we get a compiler switch that checks if variables are declared at the top of the code, then we are able to prevent problems like this at all, with having the possibility to totally ignore variable declaration for development purposes.

Walter,