>Whether it is personal or not, it still is damn serious that other people (like Nadya) do think it is a standard that reaches further than your own personal preference and now considers it to use. This is the danger of such personal preference statements: people copy this without asking why and before you know it whole tribes are using it. Sorry to bring it up again, but isn't this exacly what happened with the myth "USE AN INDEX ON DELETED(), IT WILL SPEED UP YOUR QUERIES" ?

I cannot control how carefully people read the article.

I suggest that you read Code Complete to get additional reasoning behind some of my standards.