"Patrick Molloy" wrote...
dim i , j, k, As Integer
....would raise an error !!

Odds are Chip missed the original typo.

. . . One would be that more descriptive variable
names make code much clearer to debug, . . .

Begging the question how descriptive array indices need to be. Constants and
long lived variables should have descriptive names. Short lived variables
usually don't need them.