How do I post code snippets?

I spotted some discussion about posting code snippets. However, even those discussions themselves seem to be incorrectly formatted. So, perhaps apple has changed it's discussion formatting.
What's the recommended way to quote code in a discussion?

I know this is old old... but this comes up in google when searching "apple forums code snippets"
I forgot, and managed to figure it out again... the forums are based on Jive forum software, and these use css classes and custom attribute names etc to pre format things like quotes and code snippets.
While there isn't a button to do this in the editor, what you can do instead is use the quote button then go to HTML mode and edit it's classes to change the first part of the tag from this:
<pre class="jive_text_macro jive_macro_quote" jivemacro="quote">
to
<pre class="jive_text_macro jive_macro_code" jivemacro="code">
which changes this:
ls -al /var/log/*.out
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
to:
ls -al /var/log/*.out
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
The main difference being forced monospaced font and lack of softwrapping... good for code.

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@dacCfml @ColdFusion Can you post your queries at http://t.co/8UF4uCajTC for all cfclient and mobile queries.— Anit Kumar Panda (@anitkumar85) April 29, 2014
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PaulNibin wrote:
Hi Adam,
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