> all software such as FoxPro, Oracle, Access, etc. We had one "rocket > scientist" here that had an Oracle column name as "NUMBER" and it caused > all kinds of problems with SQL. I could tell your use of "quantity" and > "value" were just examples but not as sure about the "number". I remember a junior programmer using word PROC as a variable (it was short for 'procenat', meaning percentage) in the days of FoxPlus. Funny, the compiler (foxpcomp.exe) never complained (or the lady didn't bother to try to compile it), but at runtime it spilled out all kinds of confusing messages. Took me ten long minutes to hear the click in my head.