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>>My opinion; if you have loop code where the number of fields times the number of records being processed times the number of variables in the loop can be a significant number then mdot is essential for speed if nothing else :)
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>>PS: Fabio I appreciate your position that mdot is primarily a correct coding technique with secondary benefit being a potential speed improvement. But old habits die hard :)
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>I agree.
> But, why we must twisted the mind where it is useless,
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application want to read a variable one, uses m.!>
>The funny thing is that the VFPT says something that then does not put it in practical.
>(I have taken the last Blob di Calvin on the indices, if you see a m. tell me please)
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>If you use m. for 1 month, after it becomes annoying to read a code without m. and asking themselves continuously:
>is this a field or one variable ?
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>Sure, it can be invented lots of prefixes in order to distinguish a field from a variable one, but if VFP has already a prefixed one,
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m. why I must invent of one?
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Hi Fabio, I cannot argue with this. I will change my ways ... :) Have a good weekend.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King, Jr.