I have often heard that macro substition is not a good idea.

Instead of using:

SELECT 0
USE BSpotDt

cAlias = "BSpotDt"
dAirDate1 = &cAlias..AirDate

? dAirDate1

Why not do:

#DEFINE FLD_AIRDATE BSpotDt.AirDate

SELECT 0
USE d:\projects\testdata\smts\bspotdt

dAirDate2 = FLD_AIRDATE

? dAirDate2

Then the expression is compiled in, versus evaulated at runtime. If/when your structure
changed, it would be no more work to change it then with the macro version. Maybe even
less work because there is only one play you really have to change - the .h file.

Any thoughts?