[greydius]

I wonder at what point people started to expect that search engines can instantly provide all the answers to everything worth knowing. The correct place to find a word you don't know is a dictionary. The correct place to find a symbol in code that you don't know is the definition in the source code (or language reference if it's baked in), or simply ask someone who knows.

[kibwen]

Asking someone you know is not an approach that scales in the large, and suggesting that all answers can be divined from source both assumes a level of mastery that cannot be expected (e.g. the difficulty of reading the source of C++'s Boost library vs. reaching for the extensive documentation) and denies the existence of questions such as "when is it appropriate to use this operator?" or "what is the worst-case runtime complexity of this operation?"