Originally Posted by Aaron

v2 has decreased the difficulty in using nested IF statements for me, and lowers the chances for bugs (in my opinion) so I vote for V2 first, and if it must be done, v1. V3 is just annowing to space the tab, it doesn't do anything for readability and is easy to skip/forget.

AAAAAND as for the "&&" + "AND" argument, I like && from working with C++. I think that anyone that has worked with C++ will agree. "AND" can be confused for a word while scanning a lot easier than && can anyway.