> since when is a lack of comments in the body of a method a good thing? I think that's the rationale: you are supposed to explain what you do, not how you do

> since when is a lack of comments in the body of a method a good thing? I think that's the rationale: you are supposed to explain what you do, not how you do it. The function is short enough that a global comment is enough. I agree with you, that a couple of comments in the function body wouldn't have hurt.