Timeline for Is asking for sample, illustrative code on-topic?
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| Jun 5, 2015 at 10:04 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Mod | @Mawg Yes, it can be tough getting anything other than “debug my code” through on SO. In principle, “code to exercise a specific point” would be on-topic. But that isn't what you asked here: you're asking for a whole code base, not for a code sample. Asking for a whole code base is borderline here, it's somewhere between software (on-topic) and a data source (off-topic). We already have a thread about that, but your case isn't exactly the same, please start a new meta thread. | |
| Jun 5, 2015 at 9:51 | comment | added | Mawg | Are you sure? S.O requires that you have code, post it, explain what it ought to do, and how it is going wrong. You example is fine on crypto, but what about questions like mine, where I want some "bad code" to use to validate static code analyzers? softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/20074/… surely wouldn't last 2 minutes on S.O before it was closed. On programmers, I feel that I could ask for a general approach to validating static code analyzers, but am not sure about asking for actual source code. | |
| Jun 5, 2015 at 9:45 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Mod | @Mawg Stack Overflow, if anywhere. Definitely not Software Engineering. | |
| Jun 5, 2015 at 8:38 | comment | added | Mawg | On which other S.E site could one ask? Would such a question be acceptable on programmers? | |
| Jul 11, 2014 at 1:17 | answer | added | Journeyman GeekMod | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 11, 2014 at 0:43 | history | asked | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |