>I think I saw Christof write that if you reference more than 3 items, use WITH. Otherwise, the overhead of the WITH may be more than the work to address each item.

If I were on the VFP team (there goes the neighbor hood ;-), I would have made WITH a compile time function; adding whatever the WITH is when it compiles, so there is no over head (except for when it compiles of course :-)

I also would have added an implicit WITH THIS to every fucntion, but thats just me :-)