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:::# Trivial variations just for ego's sake -- I don't know. I can't define what "trivial" means within a language I don't know, and I know (through personal experience) that the word "trivial" is tied very closely to individual experience and competence. As long as the difference between two separate code examples can be described in meaningful terms, then I think there's likely to be value there--I can use those described differences in structuring the site and ''aiding'' browsability.

::: By and large, the installation of Semantic MediaWiki is intended to help address these problems, by making the wiki software aware of the differences between examples(what task, what language, what library, what paradigm), and allowing us to create navigation pages and shortcuts. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 19:34, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

::Maybe we always have to take the complexity of the task being solved into account. For a simple task such as "Output the numbers 1 to five in order", you might expect an example using a for loop and another using a foreach loop, for example; as the way you loop is a large part of the task.

::For a larger task such as [[Range expansion]] you might prefer to work on the one example and edit it to come to a consensus on what looping structure to use. But an example picking and testing characters from a string might go ''alongside'' another example that parses using a regexp as the two methods are sufficiently different to be noteworthy.

::I don't know how to write the rules of noteworthiness other than by reading a lot of RC edits and looking at what happens. This will tend to perpetuate the status quo, however discussions like this pop up to help :-) (P.S. Edited simultaneousely with Michael's edit above. Written to follow the comment of Underscore)<br>--[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 19:47, 1 August 2010 (UTC)