It would be nice if there were some sort of shared preview view then, where you could, on finding two or three friendly, willing monks around the house, post some code, let folks poke at it and then finally push 'submit'.

I recall mentioning this myself a while back; I'd some vaguely perl related (a script that would be perl but was a 4 line shell hack to start w/) cgi problem that I wanted to ask somebody smarter about. It didn't fit in the CB and my SOPW got hammered (not, of course, that I care ;-) when I was done and I wasn't really able to get any on-going discussion, i.e. "well, what if I did XX? Okay, maybe then I could put this in a hash ..." etc. w/o having 12 replies to my own post. Okay, in the end, this problem appeared to BillG's fault (naturally) but the idea of having a scratch area to ask the not-quite SOPW stuff was very appealing. To the great one's comment above, that is *not* to say I wouldn't post what I got once the 'scratching' was finished, but heck even Da'Vinci (3rd base for the '52 Cardinals) used a paint scraper now and then. Not all of us write perfect code first time out.

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