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>I remember spending over half a day on a problem in VFP5. It was as if the line hadn't been written. No warning, nothing. Thought and thought about it. Put in a space before the semi-colon just for grins and everything worked. Up until then I had never put in the space. One of my friends then told me about this oddity. Seems like this bug doesn't always bite. Just once in a while and that's enough.

I agree. I *always* put a space before the semicolon, but I use lots of whitespace anyway. Always one after a comma, around +, =, *, etc. It makes the code much more readable. I also do continuation lines differently than most VFP programmers. Here are a couple of examples:

Most of the code I've looked at does this:

MyVar = "Some really, really, really, " + ;
  "really, really long string"

IF ThisVar = SomeValue AND ;
  ThatVar = SomeOtherValue

I code it this way:

MyVar = "Some really, really, really, " ;
  + "really, really long string"

IF ThisVar = SomeValue ;
AND ThatVar = SomeOtherValue

The differences are subtle, but, IMO, my way is much easier to read. It makes it clear by looking at the beginning of the line that it is a continuation. You may not see it here, but try it my way in the middle of a program with many lines before and after. You'll see the difference.