Hi George

>>>In short, programming to save a few milliseconds here and there is a very bad practice.
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>>Programming to make the code less prone to crashing is not a bad idea. Code could easily crash if - as you once demonstrated yourself while trying to debunk the whole mdot thing IIRC - field names and variables conflict.
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>Mike,
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>I haven't ever experienced a crash because of the mdot issue.

Actually, it wasn't a crash it was more that you made a simple mistake and your code sample ended up getting tripped up because you did not use mdot. Point being if it can happen to even you, mdot should be used. I can't search for it, but it was between you and me and we were discussing mdots and performance I think.

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>What we're talking about here are tools that are provided, free of charge, with VFP. Frankly, I don't see what the problem is. If you don't like the way the code is written, then, in most cases, you have the source, so change it. I have.

I understand that.