>>>Actually, the negative effect of using it on the right side is negligible.
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>I recall testing where it improved performance if the selected alias has a lot of fields.

Sorry - I meant the left side. Everyone can make a mistake - as is the case with the non mdot users.

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>>>The advantage of using it everywhere is in the debugger where you will see the variable value and not the field.
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>Good point, thanks.