It's generally considered a good idea to lurk a little while in an online community, to see the local standards. True. I did check the FAQ, at least, and concl

It's generally considered a good idea to lurk a little while in an online community, to see the local standards. True. I did check the FAQ, at least, and concluded that this was a legitimate post. I think there's an unanswered need, here. It's a problem of search. You want the first search result in google to be a small, rock-solid code snippet. Small, because small is simple, and small can be perfect. Longer code samples introduce too many degrees of freedom. Small samples can be unambiguously correct (for a specific purpose). This doesn't mean they're trivial. Anyhoo. If this isn't what Stack Overflow is, someone should make it...