>Cetin,
>I don't understand why the MDOT notation is important for purposes of optimization. Do you happen to know how VFP goes about resolving symbolic references at run time (for example, how it goes about traversing its symbol table, and where it looks first in order to resolve a symbol reference)? Thanks very much.
>

Mark,

this will help http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~EssentialMDot~VFP