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indicating when a question has been answered?
Post 302172135 by Perderabo on Sunday 2nd of March 2008 06:10:24 PM
03-02-2008
Just because the Original Poster had his question answered does not mean that further discussion should be prohibited. We are trying to build a knowledge base here. Consider this thread. joneja actually apologizes for asking a followup question to a thread that was several years old. But if the thread had been closed how would he get someone to explain it? Post a second thread? Then someone else who found the first thread and also didn't understand it might not find that second thread. What happens then is we get yet another thread requesting an explanation. That is what we want to prevent. We don't have a lot of experts who understand that code well enough to explain it. Posting repeated explanations is not a wise use of their time. So I am not on-board with the idea of closing all or most of our old threads.
On the other hand, I always appreciate it when the OP posts a response indicating that the problem has been solved. But, as happened with the thread I linked, some users are not that courteous.
craigp84, why do you want to skip threads that were answered?
Isn't possible that there still might be something left for you to learn? I have to say that it's a rare week when I don't learn something new here. But that wouldn't be true if I skipped all answered threads. Again, I point to the thread I linked as an example of that. (I picked a good example thread to link in .... 
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On the other hand, I always appreciate it when the OP posts a response indicating that the problem has been solved. But, as happened with the thread I linked, some users are not that courteous.
craigp84, why do you want to skip threads that were answered?
Isn't possible that there still might be something left for you to learn? I have to say that it's a rare week when I don't learn something new here. But that wouldn't be true if I skipped all answered threads. Again, I point to the thread I linked as an example of that. (I picked a good example thread to link in .... )|
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purity-ng - general purpose purity testing software SYNOPSIS
purity-ng [OPTION]... list|FILE|TESTNAME DESCRIPTION
Purity is an interactive purity test program with a simple, user interface and datafile format. For each test, questions are printed to the your terminal, and you are prompted for an answer to the current question. At a prompt, these are your choices: y Answer "yes" to the question. n Answer "no" to the question. b Backup one question, if you answered it incorrectly, or someone is watching you take the test, and you don't (or do) want to admit a different answer. s Print your current score on the test you are taking. q Quit the test, and print the current score. ? Print a help screen for the current prompt. At the end of the test, your score is printed out. For most purity tests, lower scores denote more "experience" of the test material. OPTIONS
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purity was originally written by Eric Lechner in 1989. purity-ng is a reimplementation of purity in Python for modern systems, written by Simon Fondrie-Teitler and Luke Faraone. This manual page was written by Luke Faraone. BUGS
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