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>Any developer will be able to screw up things, no matter using strong or weak typing. To be honest I find your example a rather weak one. How many percent of bugs are really rooted in this matter? I very much doubt it is significant. When using naming conventions for your variables you should avoid this problem at all times. In my VFP code, I rarely encounter problems related to this matter.
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I'm not qualified to judge whether strong or weak typing is better.


But.......

If your naming conventions require you to have specific data types, then haven't your conventions, in effect, turned everything into a form of strong typing?