Thanks Nadya,
I still think it is negligible difference even at 10 million iterations on Win 95 (did not mention processor) considering the benefits. Check out my post on my tests I only checked out 500,000, 1,000,000 and 1,500,000, but results still do not convince me that I am unduely slowing down my applications. I know that after some time has passed, I can go back and look at some code that I wrote and it is easier to follow using m. to reference variables and Alias.fieldname to reference fields. Old habits of an oldtimer I guess;) Perhaps a holdover from the days of scatter memvar.

Elmer