>About your last statement (this allows for additional commenting on the line to indicate why multiple variables all have the same value) -- you can comment each line of a multiple line statement if you wish

Yes -- quite aware of the ability to span multiple lines via the ; for continuation. So you can comment each -- but my main thought is why have multiple variables with the same value? Some how this seems to be bad design and possibly confusing as to why. If a value is to be retained like an original, I would do the following:

LOCAL lcWorkingValue, lcOriginalValue
STORE "" TO lcWorkingValue, lcOriginalValue

&&  Some code here...

lcWorkingValue = mytable.myfield + " " + lcSomeOtherString
lcOriginalValue = lcWorkingValue

&&  Now change the lcOriginalValue in the code...
&&  Some code here...
&&  Now you can compare to the original value if needed...

I don't see the need to have a multitude of variables with the same value -- the STORE command takes a single value and assigns to a list of variables. This seems to be useful at initialization and not later in code... The readability is an choice of the user as to which is "better":

STORE "SomeValue" TO lcMyVariable

Or

lcMyVariable = "SomeValue"

I find either to be "readable" -- the second form is easier to type...