DIM - AS - VARIABLE TYPE likely bug

[bplus]

Hi bartok .. thanks very much for asking this question. I do understand you are feeling somewhat under attack personally and I completely see where you did get a satisfying answer to your query but the subject took on a life of it's own after that point. Your question has highlighted some of the issues I have will my approach to variable names and types. I dim everything and and often get tripped up with string variables. If, at the beginning of my code I have something like Dim Shared  A AS String, days later and multiple lines later I'll run into a situation where I have 

Print B
Print C
Print A
Print D

And I'll forget that A is printing a string value because it looks like it's the same type as the others.

Where strings are concerned I'm now in the habit of A$ as it pops out

Print B
Print C
Print A$
Print D

 Hope you may see the comments here as addressing the issue "DIM - AS - VARIABLE TYPE likely bug" and not bartok personally.

+1 @Dimster, we are all learning here, we all can benefit by information shared by members, @bartok don't get angry please if what's being said is not useful eh, water off a ducks back... Got to say I learned something i did not know from this discussion, thanks for your questions and comments and this whole discussion.