So – you do not believe in side-effects? programming with no side-effects is basically functional programming – a paradigm that I never though merited the hype around it, and like OOP – when taken to the extreme – results in unusable programs.

Regarding preview comments – I never figure this for a good idea, you are basically writing text here. I’ll see what I can do, though due to my BiDi hack most text manipulation plugins for wordpress require some work to adapt to my blog.