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Lately I've been getting some good answers to some specific questions. However, I've been hesitating on what answer I should accept.

Do I go with the short quick answer or do I accept a later answer where someone has elaborated on the previous answer with some code?

It's not really important but it kind of bugs me to not accept an answer when people have taken the trouble of replying.

Here's two examples:

Is there a way to get the order of attributes/fields in an instance?Is there a way to get the order of attributes/fields in an instance?

Standard practise for ajax request page output?Standard practise for ajax request page output?

Lately I've been getting some good answers to some specific questions. However, I've been hesitating on what answer I should accept.

Do I go with the short quick answer or do I accept a later answer where someone has elaborated on the previous answer with some code?

It's not really important but it kind of bugs me to not accept an answer when people have taken the trouble of replying.

Here's two examples:

Is there a way to get the order of attributes/fields in an instance?

Standard practise for ajax request page output?

Lately I've been getting some good answers to some specific questions. However, I've been hesitating on what answer I should accept.

Do I go with the short quick answer or do I accept a later answer where someone has elaborated on the previous answer with some code?

It's not really important but it kind of bugs me to not accept an answer when people have taken the trouble of replying.

Here's two examples:

Is there a way to get the order of attributes/fields in an instance?

Standard practise for ajax request page output?

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Deciding what answer to accept: the correct one-liner or the later elaborate one with code?

Lately I've been getting some good answers to some specific questions. However, I've been hesitating on what answer I should accept.

Do I go with the short quick answer or do I accept a later answer where someone has elaborated on the previous answer with some code?

It's not really important but it kind of bugs me to not accept an answer when people have taken the trouble of replying.

Here's two examples:

Is there a way to get the order of attributes/fields in an instance?

Standard practise for ajax request page output?