Steven Sacks wrote:

> You should turn Strict mode on your FLAs in the publish profile 
> settings.

No problem there--it's one of the first things I did when I got CS3. I LIKE
strict typing, for all the reasons you mentioned. In fact, lack of typing in
Lingo is one of my biggest complaints about Director. It has led to more
hours of debugging than I care to think about.

I come from a background of over 20 years of typed languages--COBOL,
FORTRAN, Pascal, C/C++, even RPG--and the languages I have had the most
trouble debugging have been weakly typed or un-typed languages like Basic
and Lingo. Not that they don't have their place, but I appreciate the
compiler nagging me about mis-typed variables. I'd rather the compiler nag
me than spend half a day chasing down a bug stemming from untyped variables.

Cordially,

Kerry Thompson

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