Timeline for answer to Is the question about statements being terminated by semicolons appropriate for Programmers? by Rachel
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| Mar 22, 2012 at 19:09 | comment | added | Rachel |
@gnat <cheers /> Thanks :) I was hoping we'd get a 5th vote instead of having to get a moderator involved
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| Mar 22, 2012 at 18:22 | comment | added | gnat | question reopened - I just cast deciding vote | |
| Mar 22, 2012 at 16:38 | comment | added | Rachel | @ThomasOwens I'll do my best to edit it, however if your (or someone else) feels they know of a better way to phrase the question, feel free to do so. And glad it saved that other question from closure/deletion :) | |
| Mar 22, 2012 at 16:00 | vote | accept | Thomas OwensMod | ||
| Mar 22, 2012 at 15:59 | comment | added | Thomas Owens Mod | As an aside, this discussion has already saved a question from closure/deletion. | |
| Mar 22, 2012 at 15:38 | comment | added | Thomas Owens Mod | If you can rewrite it in that way, @Rachel, that would be good. Be sure to flag it for review when you're done. | |
| Mar 22, 2012 at 15:34 | comment | added | Rachel | @ThomasOwens, Gnat: I don't think we will have to clean up the answers at all providing we're careful with our question edit. I'd prefer to just change the way the question is phrased to clarify that the question is asked for historical purposes, since the only real problem I originally saw with the question was that I thought it was not constructive. I didn't think about the historical relevance until later. | |
| Mar 22, 2012 at 15:17 | comment | added | Thomas Owens Mod | The only problem is that I, personally, don't want to go through and clean that question up - it would take too much time to deal with the questions and the answers. Once a bad question has answers, it becomes infinitely harder to perform a heroic edit to save the question. That's why, for answered questions, the tendancy is to close them (and eventually delete them) and reask them in an appropriate way later. | |
| Mar 22, 2012 at 15:02 | comment | added | gnat |
I also feel a historical nuance in this question. However the way it is stated now makes me agree with closure-analysis made by @ThomasOwens . There is possibly a chance to save it by heroic edit and subsequent surgical removal of all answers obsoleted by that. Edit could be to something like how come that statements termination by semicolons became popular in programming languages. Something that asks more for how rather than for why, something that gets rid of senseless _most, something less inviting to chatty garbage like whatever separator sucks / rocks.
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| Mar 22, 2012 at 13:57 | comment | added | Rachel | @ThomasOwens Perhaps we can edit the question to clarify that the question is being asked for historical purposes? SE sites usually have amateurs ask questions, and experts answer, so it is fairly typical to have bad questions with good answers. | |
| Mar 22, 2012 at 13:42 | comment | added | Thomas Owens Mod | This is, so far, the good reason to potentially save the question. However, the emphasis of the question is not clearly historical. Historical questions are good - this question was even flagged, but it seems good from a histocial context based on the wording of the question. | |
| Mar 22, 2012 at 13:41 | history | edited | Rachel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 22, 2012 at 13:35 | history | answered | Rachel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |