>>>Al,
>>> I hate to sound like a neophyte, but in what ways is it more flexable?
>>>Thanks,
>>
>>And you need it to "store" to a named variable; eg.
>>
>>m.b = ""
>>m.a = "m.b"
>>STORE "Hi" TO ( m.a )
>>? m.b
>>
>>Can't do it with the "=" operator, unless you use a macro.
>
>
>Don't put the m. on the left side of an assignment =. It actually runs the code slower and isn't needed.

Thanks, but I'm well aware of the issues.

Readability, "searching", and any reduction in (my) coding errors due to field/variable name conflicts are more important (to me) than any tiny increase in performance.