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>>Bottom line: IT IS INCREDIBLY HARD TO USE MDOT TO PROVIDE FULL PROTECTION AGAINST NAMING CONFLICT. If you control the database side of thing, IT IS SO EASY TO USE NAMING CONVENTIONS TO PROTECT AGAINST NAMING CONFLICTS
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>What your examples demonstrate is that naming conventions are as hard to enforce as applying mdot on memory objects references.


Please explain.. forcing naming conventions for fields are incredibly easy... For variables they are a lot harder... for applying mdot properly and consistently near impossible for mere mortals.