>In my foxpro life I have run into many mdot discussions and even was challenged in one way or the other. I supplied numerous codes that demonstrate the need to use mdot. None of the ones who object to using mdot could provide a single -just one single- code piece that shows using mdot is harmful in any way. The only funny objection is "readability" and typing 2 extra characters - actually using mdot not only increase the readability but also provides intellisense support :)

The one place where I frequently use mdot is the command window. My short term memory is very accentuated, on the word "short", and it's getting more so as the year counter ++es. So when I'm sitting on the debugger and want to see the value of a variable or, more frequently, the properties of an unknown object, by the time I get to the command window I will forget its name. So I type the mdot and it all comes back to me :).

Inside the code, however, mdot doesn't bring up intellisense for me (maybe I miss a setting) but I have one of Thor's aides on a hotkey (alt+V for variable). And all the field names have 4 char prefixes (actually 3 plus underscore).