I must say I didn't expect so much hate for this comment hack. Hack? That's right, it absolutely is a hack - and it's definitely not the most elegant solution.
I think a lot of people really missed the point here, and used comments as a way to flaunt their clearly more impressive and infinitely superior geek prowess by using IDEs and emacs.
The point was to present a solution that was fairly platform and language agnostic. If I had included an IDE shortcut in the article, I would have had to go through a long list of all the IDEs out there and all their corresponding shortcuts. I would have then been inevitably flamed for missing some or for not representing a specific programming language.
Oh, and don't forget to bash PHP or point out how much I suck at programming for using PHP. Because everyone knows only cool developers and true geeks don't use PHP.
I think a lot of people really missed the point here, and used comments as a way to flaunt their clearly more impressive and infinitely superior geek prowess by using IDEs and emacs.
The point was to present a solution that was fairly platform and language agnostic. If I had included an IDE shortcut in the article, I would have had to go through a long list of all the IDEs out there and all their corresponding shortcuts. I would have then been inevitably flamed for missing some or for not representing a specific programming language.
Oh, and don't forget to bash PHP or point out how much I suck at programming for using PHP. Because everyone knows only cool developers and true geeks don't use PHP.