It's been said a fair few times before, stop locking your topics here. A majority of the time when someone
thinks they've solved something, they lock the topic. But there is always something that they might have missed or there may be a better method to use, but they've locked the topic so no one can tell them. In this case, sending a message to say they could do it doesn't work because people might be searching for help with their code and looking through the topic, see the method that resulted in the lock and think it's the best method, when it's not.
eg. Someone might need to know how to ignore certain iterations of a loop in the following code (they're returning, which breaks the entire loop):
for(%i = 0; %i < 10; %i++) {
if(%i == 5)
return;
echo(%i);
}
Someone responds telling them that they can wrap the echo in an if which checks if the iteration is not 5:
for(%i = 0; %i < 10; %i++) {
if(%i != 5)
echo(%i);
}
It's fixed! It works fine, so the person locks the topic. But something important has been missed, which could potentially help others or simplify the original poster's code:
for(%i = 0; %i < 10; %i++) {
if(%i == 5)
continue;
echo(%i);
}
I think I remember that Ephi once unlocked topics and posted something about how people shouldn't lock them but they keep doing it anyways.
You also forgot to mention these things:
Never edit out the OP, ever. (or any post for that matter, unless you made a typo) When something changes, make a new post. When people need help later on and are smart enough to search, all they see is working code being declared wrong because you edited it into the OP. All it does is confuse them.
Also,
Never recycle your topic for a new problem. Make a new one. If anyone has a problem, I'll sort them out. All it does is add extra confusion especially for people searching. They'll never find the old problem because you changed the title, and likely all the posts within it.
