>Where did I say they are not reserved words?
>I was not discussing "using reserved words" but "using one letter aliases in SQL statements".

While you may not be "discussing it", a single letter alias of A-J and M fit in the category of a reserved word. Kind of like trying to use a field name like "DESC" in a SQL statement. While that may or may not always cause a problem, I have seen VFP have problems there, too. Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." Doctor: "Don't do that." ;)

>So you qualify "problems in the past", "things that could potentially cause problems", "past issues" as facts? To me they look more as FUD than facts. If you have any facts, i.e. reproducible problems, with code samples, I'd really want to see that.

Since even Tamar (one of the authors of "Hacker's Guide") has said that there *were* problems, and I can't recall which version it was (one that I'm most certainly no longer using), why should I dig up an example? I don't use single character aliases. Period.

>You are back to "using reserved words" issue - it is another topic, I'm not debating that, and never did in this thread.

As I said, feel free to carry on. I'm not debating the issue either. Not sure why you insist on doing it.