>3) You are so Javascript influenced, that you terminate many LOCALs with ";", when VFP only use this as continuation line and not as ending line, like Javascript (you are tempting the luck :)
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I am not going as far as Thierry in 1 line per local var, but separate the different data types into different lines as well.
Reading speed plus convinience of initialising each "type" block with a single line
And SQL is usually taller than wide here ;-))