Hi Walter
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>Thanks, I did google a bit on the keywords and did find exactly what I was trying to say here.

I should have been more specific. It's a pretty tough issue.

Here is an article by Guido Van Rossum (the python guru) about the virtues of "dynamic typing" à la python (you could read à la python, since python typing looks very much like vfp typing).

http://www.artima.com/intv/strongweak.html

One of the current hot discussion at python-dev. is about adding "Optional Static Typing to Python" getting the best of both worlds.

By Guido Van Rossum (lots of comments within the community)

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=85551

François