>Those 2 are not in the same league - mDot today is still more important than "scatter name" is.

That is a matter of opinion, not fact. We build large commercial enterprise systems without mdot, but we do use scatter name in various places. I can't even name one instance where we had any problems with variable-fieldname related bugs in the last decade or two.

>While beauty is in eye of beholder, mDot is more than safety and speed.

Again, I beg to differ, there technically is no need for it.
If you inherit a system that is build around relying on mdot it becomes a different matter, but not if your system is build from the ground up using principles which make mdot obsolete and I would even argue that if mdot is the only thing protecting you from this problem you are even more likely to encounter the problem and face hard to track bugs.

Walter,