George,

SNIP
>
>I'm not saying never to any of this. I am saying that in many cases there's no quantitative reason for doing things otherwise. Consider

IF (a = b) THEN
>  RETURN .F.
>ELSE
>  RETURN .T.
>ENDIF

Instead of simply

RETURN (a = b)

I don't see why anyone would have a problem with EITHER of the situations above. It sure wouldn't be a factor in any hire or not decision on my part.

>The same applies to LOOP, which really does nothing other than making the code less maintainable. EXIT, IMO, shouldn't ever be used. How many times have you seen

DO WHILE .T.
>  * Lots of code here and then...
>  IF (a = b) THEN
>    EXIT
>  ENDIF
>ENDDO

rather than

DO WHILE (a = b)
>  * Lots of code here
>ENDDO

I rarely use WHILE .T. myself but I do want to point out that your 2 bits are not equivalent. When I do use WHILE .T. it is in the case where a = b is not so at the start but will become so, possibly, applyinh logic in the *LOTS OF CODE HERE part.

cheers