I should point out that my comment followed arturo's description of some horrible code. There've been a few nodes discussing how horrible things can be (I'm too lazy to look up more than one link), but it's probably nicer to try to explain why things are horrible and clean them up (as in Ovid's CGI tutorial spec, and arturo's suggestion). I was actually just commenting on how much fun it is to be cruel sometimes.

But then arturo suggested making it nice instead of mean. I do like looking at code and reading why it is bad and how it can be improved, I'm not sure I'm completely convinced it warrants its own section...we've got quite a few sections and there could be some confusion. And there's also the question of if anyone wants to correct code that the poster already knows is horrible (I assume anyone whose own code is having problems will post to SoPW). So I'd like to see posts like that, but I don't know that they need a section.

In reply to (kudra: clarification) RE: Code Clinic by kudra
in thread Code Clinic by arturo

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