>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

Try the same test but using function instead of value. My test is still running, so I probably will have to kill it... :)

Ok, I killed it and ran this test: (first time with date() function)

local i, ab, lnSec
lnSec =seconds()
for i=1 to 100000
    ab=datetime()
next
?seconds()- m.lnSec     
clear all
lnSec =seconds()
for i=1 to 100000
    m.ab=datetime()
next
?seconds()- m.lnSec

First test: 11.881 vs. 11.900
Second test 22.714 vs. 23.472