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

Erik! You changed your picture, not personality< g >.

Seriously, in most cases this isn't an issue. I mean if I've got 20-30 lines of code, and performance isn't an issue, why not return at the bottom? I've just found it a good habit and it helps me maintain the applications. Another thing it does is maintain the logical sub-ordination of the code blocks. You know (and are absolutely certain), that when a block subject to a logical conditions executes or fails to, exactly why.