It would be nice if there were some sort of shared preview
view then, where you could, on finding two or three friendly,
willing monks around the house, post some code, let folks poke
at it and then finally push 'submit'.
I recall mentioning this myself a while back; I'd some
vaguely perl related (a script that would be perl but was
a 4 line shell hack to start w/) cgi problem that I wanted
to ask somebody smarter about. It didn't fit in the CB and
my SOPW got hammered (not, of course, that I care ;-)
when I was done and I wasn't really able to get any
on-going discussion, i.e. "well, what if I did XX? Okay,
maybe then I could put this in a hash ..." etc. w/o having
12 replies to my own post. Okay, in the end, this problem
appeared to BillG's fault (naturally) but the idea of
having a scratch area to ask the not-quite SOPW stuff
was very appealing. To the great one's comment above,
that is *not* to say I wouldn't post what I got once
the 'scratching' was finished, but heck even Da'Vinci (3rd
base for the '52 Cardinals) used a paint scraper now and
then. Not all of us write perfect code first time out.
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