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Best Practice

The END, IF, REPEAT, FOR, WHILE, ELSE and CASE statement should always start a line.

Bad code

IF IsContactName THEN ValidateContactName
  ELSE IF IsSalespersonCode THEN ValidateSalespersonCode
    ELSE IF IsSalesCycleCode THEN ValidatSalesCycleCode;

Good code

IF IsContactName THEN
  ValidateContactName
ELSE
  IF IsSalespersonCode THEN
    ValidateSalespersonCode
  ELSE
    IF IsSalesCycleCode THEN
      ValidatSalesCycleCode;

Last modified February 24, 2022: Added tags & categories + cleanup (5ee04366) by waldo1001