I agree with this fully. Sometimes I find myself here after google searching an issue or a better way to accomplish a task I am working on. I generally won't ask something until I've searched this issue and either not found a reasonable solution or just plain don't understand a solution presented. Resources like the monastery are priceless sources for information. For me it is obvious when a poster has done his homework before posting the question. It can be helpful to point to a path that may be applicable, one that the poster had not thought of before, but sometimes, a couple of lines of code as an example can say more than 100 lines of documentation. And as noted, it can help others in the future, who may just simply stumble into it using google, such as myself.

In reply to Re^2: Give a fish or teach to fish? by jnbek
in thread Give a fish or teach to fish? by Anonymous Monk

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