>>IMHO, it's a dangerous style to not use the m. prefix. If you add a field in a table and a variable with the same name exist somewhere in the code, you could be in for a strange-hard-to-debug side effect.
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>>>Great point, Cetin. I used to always use m. notation, but later had to drop this habit to adhere to other programmers' style.
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>I know, but with the lc prefix the probabily of the error is less. Anyway, I agree with this statement and may resume my long time habit again.

Any programmer worth his/her salt should not have any problem looking at code with or without the mdot. This is programming not a fashion show. Style is irrelevant. mdot is not a style it is acknowledging how foxpro works.