On 26/11/11 00:07, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Its usually better to paste long programs into a pastebin web site and
give us a link.
I'd just like to say that some of us disagree with this advice. Some
people (e.g. me) often read their where getting access to a browser is
less convenient.
Its true there are downsides to every option.
Even a 200 line program isn't that big, it's only about 6K.
That adds up if you are reading on a 3G smartphone with a 100M data
limit or paying by the byte. And attachments don't help there.
Plus many email gateways block all attachments as a security measure.
is so large that syntax highlighting becomes particularly useful, then
chances are it's too long and people won't read it regardless.
I find syntax highlighting useful even in very short snippets of code,
but I agree it's better to just keep the code sample short and post it
inline.
And I do take the point that pastebins are short lived and so unless the
replies incorporate the defective code snippets its lost to the archive.
Nonetheless I personally prefer a pastebin posting to a long mail
listing with no highlighting and often defective indenting. as I say
there is no perfect solution to long posts other than to shorten them....
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Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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