Tonight I've been working on finally using OOP perl for real, so I've been searching through perlmonks for examples. I see a lot of good questions that ask for help with some code, and lots of good answers that would improve the code. A lot of nodes get more than one approach to solving the problem, and each thread gets specific to one solution set. After reading a couple of these threads composed of for sure good answers and "this might work" answers, it gets really confusing to figure out how the code should be fixed and made usable. It'd be a big help if there was posting of what was finally decided on the question. I know it eliminates the quest, but it also helps eliminate confusion.

Am I alone in this sentiment, or is it a good idea? Should it be ettiquette that you post your final solution at the bottom of the thread, or update the original question to have the final code at the end? Maybe a separate area would be better to make it so hard core coders could figure it out for the learning exercise without seeing a workable answer first. What's everyone think on this?

In reply to Post solutions from help on a problem by mp3car-2001

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