>>I once had a case of a logical expression which extended over eight lines (in Cobol :). It took me good ten minutes to reduce it to an equivalent two-liner. The person who wrote that was an economist. That taught me that while I have the feeling the logical expression are easy to do, I may not share that feeling with all the people :).
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>The same is true for the expressions after WHERE, FOR, CASE and so on. It is my habit to present all combined ´parts´ of the expression not only between parentheses, but also on separate lines.

These are logical expressions too, so they do fall into the same category. And I also tend to split them over lines for clarity's sake - sometimes I even break an iif() if it's longer than my usual line length.

>Example:
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select ;
>   * ;
>   from sometable ;
>   where nose > 4_inch ;
>   or    mouth > 3_inch ;
>   or    ( ears > 5_inch and hair > 30_inch ) ;
>   or    hand > 10_inch ;
>   into cursor c_table

Now this does look like a freak table :).