>>Agreed to disagree, but bear in mind that your reference to me and my view on the matter in the prior messages was not what I expected from you either. Hence my question whether it was really you.

Is it important enough to dispute?

I use Mdot by habit as well as HN and sometimes scattered objects or even scattered local memvars for quick munging, so there's no mutual exclusion. However, there is a definite effect of "not using variable names that match fields" wrt VFP Compiler. The compiler pulls the field names for all tables or views used in your code, and doesn't mess with variables named same as a field, or that are used in macro substitution, or a few other circumstances where obfuscated variable names might cause a SNAFU. So your convention delivers better obfuscation. Not that everybody cares about that...