Here there is no other way then mdot. But this does not mean because of some awkward inherited code I need to force this anywhere else.

(I would help myself and at least rename that object. That's what Coderef or GoFish is made for. Might be some boring work, but a lot better afterwards.)

>The app I inherited does this:
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>SCATTER NAME Tablename
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>So now, not only do I have to worry about fields taking precendence over vars, I also have to worry about aliases taking precendence over objects.
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>The only solution is m.object because I cannot rewrite the stupid choices made in the past.