OK... isn't that was encapsulation and data hiding is for. Also, declaring variables LOCAL so they are unique within a method even if they are the same name in another method?

>There are thousands of tables and lots of fields. To much of a chance to stomp on existing variables.
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>>>If I change all the oRec.field values to variables, it seems to work fine, but that adds other issues.
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>>Other issues, such as?
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>>BOb