>The issue is for Alias, not for a Field.
>When you write this.xxxx VFP search for a Alias=='this'
>into the current datasession.
Yes, that makes sense - I hadn't thought much about the details.
So, we might suppose that there will be SOME performance difference if the "m." is not specified.
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