>There's a thread about it in the Google Groups group for Thor. In that thread, I asked that this functionality be added a couple months back. After several back and forth exchanges, I was told (in short) that wasn't going to happen. I've since left the group and moved on.

I am most curious where you got the idea that you could make a suggestion in the Thor forum and it would be up to somebody else to write the code for you.

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>>I am not aware of any "ability to validate whether or not there are any name collisions on
>>a system when you know all of the tables in use". There are, indeed, some small bits and
>>pieces in Thor that could be used to address such a request, but there is nothing like what
>>you are asking for. It would be a significant amount of new work to achieve it.
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>It would not be significant. Only a project or directory would be required. You iterate through every file, parsing every table, every program, class, form, etc., and identify every variable reference, and every field name. Note any collisions.
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>The code which prefixes everything with "m." in Thor right now could be extended to also record this data to a table. And a simple SQL SELECT statement at the end would list any collisions.
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If this issue is so important to you and the amount of new work, as you say, "would not be significant", I have to wonder why you have not already created it.