>Just as an aside, I have been told by a colleague of a trainee programmer who produced a fairly large module (in C) with marginally less white space than your example (he used single space indenting). When I asked why he hadn't used spacing to aid reading the code he explained, in all seriousness, that he was told that a good programmer produces "compact code" & this was what he had aimed to do.

Len,

Now that is the 'stuff' that makes good urban legends! Compact code?! LOL!!!!