>>This is one oft touted convention that I don't stick to at all.
>>Say I have a routine that has to check for several conditions before it can get to the meat of the routine, if any of them fail, it should return .F. instead of running through.
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>This is exactly what I tried to say, see my reply to George. Or maybe there is a misunderstanding here?

I was agreeing with you. I was disagreeing with George (or rather, the convention that George subscribes to). :-)