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Do you think it would be worthwhile to provide hints as to what language to use for the syntax highlighting?

Sometimes I find the highlighting on SQL or VB.NET answers is more distracting than helpful; for example:

• Converting MySQL select to PostgreSQL
• Retrieving data from a VB.NET arraylist of objects

to pick the two I've been looking at recently.

Do you think it would be worthwhile to provide hints as to what language to use for the syntax highlighting?

Sometimes I find the highlighting on SQL or VB.NET answers is more distracting than helpful; for example:

• Converting MySQL select to PostgreSQL
• Retrieving data from a VB.NET arraylist of objects

to pick the two I've been looking at recently.

Do you think it would be worthwhile to provide hints as to what language to use for the syntax highlighting?

Sometimes I find the highlighting on SQL or VB.Net answers is more distracting than helpful; for example:

• Converting MySQL select to PostgreSQL
• Retrieving data from a VB.NET arraylist of objects

to pick the two I've been looking at recently.

Do you think it would be worthwhile to provide hints as to what language to use for the syntax highlighting?

Sometimes I find the highlighting on SQL or VB.NET answers is more distracting than helpful; for example:

• Converting MySQL select to PostgreSQL
• Retrieving data from a VB.NET arraylist of objects

to pick the two I've been looking at recently.