>>My opinion on mdot is that it rarely matters, it's useful only as a method to invoke intellisense in the command window, the trouble that may be caused by not using it is easy avoid and yep it looks ugly. Where do I pay my excommunication fees?
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>It matters to me because of all the crappy coders I've encountered. Do not give anyone the right to say my evidence is ill advised.

Do you hear yourself? You are basing the axioms of your coding religion on this crap. Find a better base.

>In this very app I'm struggling with now, they do this...
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>select alias
>scatter name alias.
>m.alias.property = something.

Ouch.
But, know what, in your case I'd take the time and replace this with

   scatter name scAlias
   scAlias.property...

and group mentions of scAlias in a with-endwith block where it makes sense. The scope of the scattered object can't be too big... unless it's a private variable mentioned in a dozen called methods/procedures, then I'd probably hire a couple of thugs to find the guy.