This falls under the use-it or lose-it category. I got this wrong even though I knew the answer.

It's a good QOD though.

I would like to know the reason behind this...

I can't picture ever using this knowledge, but learning it is still cool.

Steve Jones - Editor (2/27/2009)

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It's not necessarily question of smart of dumb. It's easy to keep control...

It's definitely the clutter that bothers me. It can cause additional time to be wasted when maintaining or updating an application.

:cool:It's also just plain dumb to leave them laying around...

Okay, I'll byte. What exactly is the definition of a physical join?

Steve Jones - Editor (2/18/2009)

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I completely agree with the appraisal and notification for the CEO. Knowing about emergency or out-of-the-ordinary expenditures is important, and should be done. My point was...

I maintain that it is possible that this CEO may have decided that this knowledge is indeed of value to him or her, and for reasons that are not known...

It is probably safe to assume that as CEO, the travel approval rule is one that he/she feels is important. I could speculate that travel time is unproductive, or that...

archie flockhart (2/12/2009)

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Here's an interesting combination:

This code works perfectly OK ( the unmatched block comment marker causes no problems because it is part of an inline comment):

print '1'

--/*note unmatched...

That's not as bad as it seems when you break...

Charles,

Regarding line (10). That is the same incorrect assumption that most of us made. Line 10 is not ignored. The comment begin marker causes the parser to search from the...

Version control isn't needed when making temporary edits...

Irish Flyer (2/11/2009)

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Given the inconsistancies noted, I guess it brings home the point that one should be consistant in coding. Either use the -- convention to comment a line,...

That was FUN!

With all of the commenting that I use, permanent and temporary, I knew this would be a cinch. And like everyone else, I got it wrong. I think...

Thanks for the info Yoda... er... Sankar. Something new I learned.:)