\" let the rater tell me y its 5/10 and not 10/10 ???\"

I believe you said that. Hence, you\'re complaining about your score.

I wasnt saying the snippet needs to be long, you just have it 5 lines longer than it needs to be in the first place, so its not gonna be a 10/10, since its not perfectly coded.

and about that var being the only thing to prevent an error. I\'ll call your attention to the help file (another reason I would say this wouldnt have even been a 5)

/help /echo
and find this line:
The -q switch makes it not display the text if called from an alias using the . prefix.

SO um.. You couldnt find any way to prevent the error, besides setting a useless variable? clears throat yeah. You should try reading some more in the help file, THEN ask for 10/10 on your snippets.