>>>>Hi. How can a dangling DS happen in the case doing a collection of scatter name objects?
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>>>As objects are created in the scope of a data session,
>>>creating an object there and reusing it much later keeps the DS alive as there is still an object alive in it.
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>>Maybe then
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>>scatter name oOtherForm.oRecord
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>>would not create such a dependency. The object is supposedly created previously, so it already exists in the DS of oOtherForm.
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>Think a scatter name always creates a new object

I guess the "additive" keyword is there to supress just that,
but I have never tested if it is really "additive" to an object (staying) from another DS
or if a new one is created and missing properties are copied over.