Many years ago, I don't remember if it was dBase or FoxBase, I wrote an application which I still use daily. The Norwegian word for backorder is restordre, so it was only natural for me to name the backorder table rest, and also the quantity field was named rest. This was before REST became a scope. You can imagine some of my commands caused me problems after some years .....!

>>If one follows the basic rule NEVER to use reserved words for variables, you will not come in the situation you describe.
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>This reminds me of when I received a bug report for Codeblock. The developer's code would not run under Codeblock, but would when compiled natively. Turns out he was using a variable name of "scan". I could not convince him that this was a bad name...
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>-- Randy