>>To this day, I adhere to the practices I learned then. The QB/VB editor just makes it easy to apply.
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>The auto-formatting I could probably live with. My main issue was with the "on the fly" syntax checking. "Yes, I know that line isn't syntactically correct. I'm going to go back and fix it later, I swear. Now leave me alone!" :-)

Oh, I understand that one.< bg > Sometimes, however, when I try to save something I'm working on in VFP, the compiler catches something and then I have to spend time tracking it down. In some cases, it's "go back and fix later". In others, it's BFUBOBD (Big F*** Up By One Big Dummy) and I wish that I had known about it earlier. Just a matter of personal taste, I guess.