Hi peter,

>Another wording for 'my opinion' might be 'my standards'. I think that the originator of this thread was not so much interested in our personal standards. If we had a standards-committee that said that we must use scope identifiers, would you use them?

No, for explainable reasons (I did explain a few here)! If someone at DL told you to use character fields to store dates, would you do it ? I guess you know my answer.

Walter,