Timeline for Why are there no line numbers in the code listings?
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| Jun 24, 2012 at 1:41 | comment | added | bobobobo | I can only imagine how narrow Jeff's eyes were when he posted that first comment -_- | |
| Feb 3, 2011 at 23:26 | comment | added | Karl Bielefeldt | @Jeff, I'm more interested in examples of "hard to keep the discussion going." I had the same thought at first, and tried to look for situations where the lack of line numbers led to awkward phrasing in answers, but couldn't find any. To the contrary, a lack of line numbers seems to increase the tendency to quote the relevant lines, which increases clarity by showing instead of telling. I think people like the idea of line numbers because they help a lot when someone is sitting next to you talking aloud about your code, but that doesn't transfer to written communication. | |
| Apr 13, 2010 at 23:47 | comment | added | Vaccano | @Jeff, Here is another one. I had forgotten about this tally I was keeping till I got this more explicit one: stackoverflow.com/questions/2633853/c-constructor-question | |
| Apr 1, 2010 at 18:48 | comment | added | Pekka | I definitely second this. There sometimes is the need for > 20 lines of code. Line numbers as an option would be great. | |
| Jan 28, 2010 at 3:58 | comment | added | Vaccano | Here is another where only showing ~15 lines of code caused mis-understanding. If it were easier to add more lines it would have gotten a lot better answers: stackoverflow.com/questions/2151361/… | |
| Jan 22, 2010 at 21:59 | comment | added | Vaccano | Here is another one where the answer was asking for more details about the code: stackoverflow.com/questions/2119586/… | |
| Dec 29, 2009 at 20:58 | comment | added | Vaccano | Here is another one from just a few minutes ago: stackoverflow.com/questions/1976669/… | |
| Dec 29, 2009 at 0:18 | comment | added | Vaccano | Here is another one from today: stackoverflow.com/questions/1972128/… | |
| Dec 27, 2009 at 23:12 | comment | added | Vaccano | As I said, it is "to the effect" of show us more code. Some answer's need more code. I don't usually like posting more, but sometimes people get caught up in the "why do you need to do that the way you say you need to" attitude. This usually neccesiates more code to explain why. While not a perfect example (I did not feel like digging through all my questions on Christmas weekend) here is an example that needed me to add code because people where questioning why I was doing something the way I was. stackoverflow.com/revisions/1868414/list | |
| Dec 23, 2009 at 21:34 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | provide URLs with examples of this "needs lots of code" | |
| Dec 23, 2009 at 21:09 | history | answered | Vaccano | CC BY-SA 2.5 |