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>>Thanks, but I'm well aware of the issues.
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>>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.
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>- In this case, fields and variables can't be confused because you can't use fields on the left side of an assignment =.

So I'm going to use them on the right side but not on the left ?

>- Readability gets more difficult (IMO) because there are more characters for the brain to interpret

I have a big brain.

"m." ... DOH !

>- The "tiny increase" could get very large inside a loop. I've timed the differences to be three times slower.

What ? A million iterations ? A Billion ?

Jeepers, we were talking about a single STORE statement. Or are your "rules" applied blindly to every possible situation ?