display <the alias of your table>.status would dismiss the need for any "correction". It's the same principle of using mdot *wherever* possible.
On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 7:06 PM Gene Wirchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > At 06:50 2019-06-06, António Tavares Lopes <[email protected]> wrote: > >That's a compelling argument for the use of mdot *whenever* possible! > > > >m.Next(1) = .F. && no-boom! > > Hardly. It *is* an argument for not using > language keywords as names. There are other > contexts when m. would not work for this. I once > created a table with a column named status. One > time, I wanted to see all of the values of this column. > display status > did not give me the expected output. I corrected the table. > > [snip] > > Sincerely, > > Gene Wirchenko > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/cadj74tgkbvdamdx9ucurjwqt1oadff5iqvvwebqpl-dpoxx...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
