Chris,

'Cause Calvin Hsia says so.

http://blogs.msdn.com/calvin_hsia/archive/2004/12/14/301282.aspx

>Dear Mike,
>
> I work with both Nadya and Jim as a developer. I think you're missing the point. No one really cares about the mdots. It's just the fact that any time a library is checked back in to Source Safe, Nadya has a tendency to check it out and start making changes (both cosmetic and for "improvements"). Sometimes the "improvements" backfire.
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> We can all tell when Nadya has been through our code: there's mdots everywhere and reserved words are invariably changed to lower case. The mdots are like her grafitti tag. However, Nadya is brilliant so we can overlook some of her foibles.
>
>Thanks:
>
>Chris B
>
>
>PS How can we prove that mdots are faster? :)