>>>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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>>I thought she went by Naomi now.
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>>I'm not missing the point at all. I understood they've sorta become her grafitti. I've already addressed that making improvements just for the sake of them is wrong.
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
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>>I've not seen much to support that assertion. But everybody has their own perspective.
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>>>PS How can we prove that mdots are faster? :)
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>>Very easily. But first. Here's a test for you. I have the following code:
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>>lnA = 10
>>? lnA + 1 && on this line I get a datatype mismatch.
>>
>
>Mike,
>
>Possibly you have a table open with a field named lnA that is nonnumeric.
>
>Regards,
>>Explain how.

I was asking Chris. Sometimes you don't know how bad something is until you experience debugging it.