It sounds like a terrible idea to me, for several reasons. One of them just happened to be the quote line as I was reading your post: "Keep It Simple Stupid". ,)

Another would be that the whole point of most posts, is to try and solve erroneous errors in code, which probably means that the poster *cant* get the code to compile. Forcing them to figure out workarounds just to be able to post would just obscure the problem.

We'd need a whole heap of new tags too, <code>, <code that doesnt compile>, <literal non-code stuff> etc. pp. It really sounds like overdoing it to me.

I suggest you just create a script that downloads code (plenty of examples for that about), and automatically checks it. (And for bonus points, an intelligent syntax-repairer, that removes or comments out '...' etc. ;)

C.