> My #1 enemy in VFP is myself. I end up trying to add a string and a > number together. In RB the compiler finds most of these issues at build > time and saves me tons of time by keeping me from stepping on my own toes.
Yes-- as all strongly typed languages will do, saving people from many bugs. I don't have stat data, but I'd say over 50% of my bugs(mostly caught in first-run during development, but not all) are operator/operand type mismatch due to something like this. That and simple typos for field names(using VariSense has almost completely eliminated this for me for variable names), and occassionally getting caught by a copy/paste of an object reference(this.dosomething on a form copied to another level and should be remapped to thisform.dosomething or similar). -- Derek _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
