>>Customer.Name
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>>can not be typed at compile time. In fact, this could change after compilation. So this would never work.
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>Not the greatest point in that respect because DataSets and dynamic fields work exactly like that although the syntax is different and it would require a cast:
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>string Name = (string) drCustomer["Name"];
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>There's nothing that would preclude a compiler fixing up Company.String to translate into something like the above and performing the type fixup.

Not entirely true. Sure, you could compile this into something collection based, but to do so, you'd first have to type "Customer" to be a table, which is something we do not do in VFP...

Markus