>Good point, I don't generally get that carried away, but I have notice silly examples in the past, such as declaring variables in more than one line:
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>PUBLIC gcVar1
>PUBLIC gcVar2
>PUBLIC gcVar3
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>Stuff like that.
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>Kev

I've come across odd ones like that too. I was thinking of one or two more controversial examples, but I didn't want to start another long drawn out discussion. Less controversially, there was a recent thread on nested iif's, which can be confusing, an example of where (IMHO) 3 lines are preferable over 1.

What I've tended to do in the past (especially for new projects) is to use a set of guidelines of (best ?) practices that should be applied to the particular project. Ideally, all coding/documentation/etc will adhere to these guidelines, but if the programmer finds it necessary to go against the guidelines & can justify to me (& the rest of the team - I have occassionally been known to be democratic) why the guidelines should not be used, then I will accept it.