On Exit question

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But the point I was trying to make, is that there are number of control variables ( ie For x = 1 to 10, or For i = ?? to ??), these control variables I don't think are usually Dimensioned and a program can have a ton of them. Option _Explicit seems to force you to Dimension them.

It doesn't "seem" to force anybody to do anything. Any variable, regardless of its role, has to be dimensioned (declared) if OPTION _EXPLICIT is in place. What if you wanted to use variable "i" or "x" for something else having to do with integers?

"DIM" keyword caused a fair amount of confusion because "traditionally" it was used to create arrays. Especially in GW-BASIC there was no way to allocate space for an ordinary variable because INTEGER was pretty much the only scalar type. Could have also declared DOUBLE or SINGLE or even STRING but that wasn't thought of until QuickBASIC and QBasic.

On one of the Atari computers, "DIM" was used to allocate string space which added to the confusion. A new keyword should have coined like "GLOBAL". I think some people tried to force the use of COMMON SHARED in QuickBASIC to get away from DIM and leave DIM only to declare arrays.