This reasoning is analogous to people that automatically spellcheck email and think everything is fine, but then neglect to hand check for things like grammar, inappropriate content, etc (i.e. strain out a gnat and swallow a camel). There is a lot of syntactically correct code that is just plain garbage that no amount of automated checking will find. I ought to know -- I've written plenty of it.

Unless the poster is just sitting there banging stuff like "hasdflkjsdlfkjsdlfkj" into the keyboard, most mature people can get past minor syntatic issues without getting tweaked. If you are worried about being downvoted, either don't answer at all, fill in the details, mention you aren't posting all the details, or take your lumps.

bluto

In reply to Re: Code Blocks by bluto
in thread Code Blocks by ptkdb

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