At 02:36 06-02-2002 +0000, Svein wrote:

>Below you'll find a modified version of your program written the way I
>normally do things (well, I've never used the Assign method - normally
>stick to AsInteger, AsString etc. and in loops use Fields[<fieldnr>] rather
>than FieldByName).

I often wonder about this sort of thing. Do personal preferences about
syntax choice make any difference to the compiled code? Are there penalties
for making one's source code as comprehensible as possible?

Peter Lawson