generally I’d say the questions here are better than on SO :)

@alexmiller Hehe, absolutely, but they’d definitely need editing to go up there - it’s a different format.

Yep

OK, I just posted my first thing as an editor [1]. I thought I'd document the process I used here in case it's helpful. 1. Asked the asker and the answerer (in a 3-way group chat on this Slack) for permission to write up and post their content (or else write it up and let them post it if they're interested in the points). 2. Asked for clarification about the question or answer as needed. 3. Wrote a draft of the question and the answer, shared in the channel, and asked for feedback. 4. Asked whether they wanted their names (at the top of the question and answer, respectively) linked anywhere. 5. Posted on StackOverflow and shared the link with them. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/q/47358416/202292

@jeff.terrell wow great job

can someone go here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47333668/split-lines-in-clojure-while-reading-from-file/47335819#47335819 and upvote my answer and downvote @borkdude's answer ?

@gdeer81? 😄

@martinklepsch it was a question so I ended it with a questionmark

I think the "here" is the confusing part @gdeer81

haha yeah 😅

wow, I'm clever

it's not my fault, I'm used to getting an error message when I use unbound vars 😆

I'll upvote your answer but I'm not downvoting that other one! 😆

> I am learning clojure at school and I have an exam coming up. Schools are teaching Clojure? Nice.

@seancorfield my answer to the Pascal's triangle question? 🙃

Promoting the REPL to explore how to split lines. Always good to promote the REPL!

I feel like nobody in the answers is addressing the fact that the asking person seems to be confused by the fact that split-lines does not actually modify the line “variable”?

@martinklepsch Yeah, that sort of thing seems to be a common learning problem. Worth highlighting in a comment on the question, at least...

@martinklepsch I was hoping he would discover that at the repl but you're right someone should point it out just in case

actually, someone did say that he was printing the line and not the split result, but they didn't mention it was because of immutability

If I can get a few more upvotes I'll have enough reputation to make a comment on the question. maybe I should add another answer

Another way we can overcome the Catch 22 of "if more people ask google for help on X then X will show a trend and become more popular" is if you have documentation for your library don't post a direct link to it, post a link to a google search for it. And when I release 9.2 of Marginalia I'm going to post the link on the mailing list like this https://www.google.com/search?q=Clojure+Marginalia