Touch anything below this line at your peril!

[mainegreen]

Poll question: Touch anything below this line at your peril!

A comment in some code I'm reviewing right now.
So, what do you think? Should I risk it?
Will I come to bodily harm?
Will my arms get ripped off or is it merely an empty threat?

[Redstone]

1. Hey, the original coder is English. And knows that some of us are, well, old and

inattentive, not to mention forgetful.

It's a fair warning, especially given the audience it was meant for, yes? That's what commenting is for: To keep us civilians from messing about with the propellorhead stuff and getting ourselves into trouble.

Redstone

[mainegreen]

3. Well, I'm risking it!

Got my local dev site set up, pulled down a copy of the code and I'm proceeding to.. well break it in order to get a good idea on what is going on in each step.

I'll probably have some questions for you tomorrow.

Meanwhile I have code to trash!

*bwahahahah*

(don't worry, it's a local copy!)

[Redstone]

5. But I won't be around tomorrow or Wednesday.

Commit your breakage as you feel you must, and let me know Thursday how it all worked out.

Jeez, I guess I shouldn't have stopped programming all those years ago; it sounds like it's actually fun these days.

Redstone

[realisticphish]

2. For all you know

there will be a flash of blue light, and you will receive (in the words of Rebecca Watson) a magical pony that farts rainbows.

[mainegreen]

4. Ooooh! I want a pony that farts rainbows!

:rofl:

[Deja Q]

6. In short, if we do will we end up scraming in agony,

MAJOR SHRINKAGE!!!

MAJOR SHRINKAGE!!!

MAJOR SHRINKAGE!!!

MAJOR SHRINKAGE!!!

MAJOR SHRINKAGE!!!

MAJOR SHRINKAGE!!!

:yoiks:

[mainegreen]

7. That is most definitely a HIT AND RUN post!

And a gratuitous use of blinking text!

:rofl: