>They use m. prefixes all the time w/o SCATTER or referring to fields? Have you ever looked at any of their sample code?
>They would do something like this
>LOCAL lcMyLocalValue
>*...
>RETURN m.lcMyLocalValue
>
>It's weird

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John,
I looked at samples and do look since foxbase plus :) It's not needed generally, you're right. I more think why they don't use shorter, faster code most of the time :)
PS: I generally find it unnecessary to have "local" in a method too.
Cetin