The AS word is optional...it is the same thing as your example. You must be thinking of INTO CURSOR curx, and you are right, you can't put those fields in the field list.

>Right, I do it too.
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>But when I do I say .... FROM aTable CURx...
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>And I'd certainly avoid using the same alias as my output cursor, for both clarity and for added safety with syntax.
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