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Hi Peter,

First let me say clearly that when it comes to discussions like this (coding preferences/standards) I take nothing personal.

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>>And I don't believe it's legitimate to "expect that the next developer in line will also be a professional" if you mean one with xx years experience. A novice to VFP could still be a "professional developer".
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>Agree partly on this one. Did I mention xx years of experience? No. But although a novice may be called a professional just because he/she earns a salary with developing in vfp, I do not feel urged to write code in such a way that is understood fully even by a real novice. Do you?

I feel an urge to write code in such a way that it is clear what it is doing and to remove any need for a reader to go back to prior reviewed code to see certain things (which alias is now selected, or the code is finished with this table, as examples). And I don't see how this can hurt the "professional" reader unless they worry about the wrong things.

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>>In my opinion minimum typing and minimum lines does not equate to a "professional developer".
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>Agree on this one. Did I plea somewhere for minimum typing and minimum lines? My code contains a lot of empty lines, for clarity's sake.

No you didn't. But others do, so I mention it as a big (main?) issue for some people.
Blank lines are almost free to code < s >. And even there I bet there are some who view this as "wasted space/keystrokes", forcing them to prematurely scroll and stuff like that.

Basically, I take other people's code as it is and try to work with it, to the point of trying to conform to their style regardless of my 'standards'. So I may not be as 'fixed' in this as I sound < s >

cheers