You're preaching to the choir ;)

Who do you think started this...

http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~EssentialMDot~VFP

>Hi Mike,
>
>>Wow! I didn't know that! One more reason to use m., eh?
>
>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 )
>
>I donnot put m. only when use table with holes on fields list, the hole is filled by the variable with the default value.
>
>Fabio