You're preaching to the choir ;)
Who do you think started this...
http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~EssentialMDot~VFP>Hi Mike,
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>>Wow! I didn't know that! One more reason to use m., eh?
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>m. is not a optional on VFP:
>1. for not ambiguous programming
>2. for performance
>( try to use a variable without m. and with 200 fields on the current workarea )
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>I donnot put m. only when use table with holes on fields list, the hole is filled by the variable with the default value.
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>Fabio