My understanding of VFP's handling of this is that it's limited to
intellisense only, and has no real effect to enforce any kind of
strong type checking. The only other benefit is the code is easier to
read and helps to identify what the programmer was trying to do with
the variable declarations.
At 10:06 AM 1/8/2008, you wrote:
>Take a look at the help for FUNCTION. It gets as close as you'll get to
>strong typing in VFP.
>
>? TIME(), MyFunction("Strong typing in VFP? ", 3)
>
>&& Notice the "AS STRING" at the end of this.
>FUNCTION MyFuction(tcParam1 as String, tnParam2 as Integer) AS STRING
> LOCAL lcRetVal
> lcRetVal = REPLICATE(tcParam1, tnParam2)
> RETURN lcRetVal
>ENDFUNC
>
>(I just typed this in without testing.)
>I don't think the compiler would catch the error if you actually
>returned some other data type than STRING however.
>
>I hope this is what you were after.
>-Kevin
>CULLY Technologies, LLC
>
>
>Allen wrote:
> > thanks Rick it does but there is still nowhere to put in return types and
> > strict data types
> > Allen
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> > Behalf Of Rick Schummer
> > Sent: 08 January 2008 15:30
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: classes
> >
> >>> mind you, there must be a way of doing it visual. Isnt there ?<<
> >
> > CREATE CLASS
> >
> > Brings up a dialog with file pickers.
> >
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