>But there are advantages to the alternative you've shown above...
>1) It is crystal clear what is being done, even for those who don't know about the LTR feature;
The shorter alternative is crystal clear to me. And, IMNSHO, it should be quite clear to other VFP experts as well.
>2) Coding that way works for sure in every language.
It seems to me that most other languages support shortcut boolean evaluation as well.
>Sure, it takes a few lines. But minimum lines # clarity.
Sometimes. In the example I gave, I have the impression that the additional IF causes an innecessary increase of complexity.
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