This has come up before, but a good quick disposable
area is your own home node, which is not
only easy for people to find, but can be edited by
you as much as you like. (And people cannot
vote it down either!)
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Why should you get the benefit of someone else's wisdom, but no-one else?
That's one of the reasons that we say "put it in SOPW instead of typing it into the CB".
We can answer it once and for all that way.
So I say no to this requested feature.
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I guess being new to perl- i just am a little intimidated putting code in for what i condsider stupid perl tricks to reinforce leaning perl into sopw. Especially when 90% of the time the codelets don't work because of a syntactical error. Semantical errors I would post there- better implementations, more efficient, etc.. Its just at this point i get really happy if it WORKS the way I expected. I have no problem sharing code/snipplets, just at this point i am worried about getting the stuff to work, and then i go back and make it pretty. Thanks,
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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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