Have a conversation. As a code reviewer you're looking to increase the understanding of the person whose code you're reviewing -- which starts with understandin

Have a conversation. As a code reviewer you're looking to increase the understanding of the person whose code you're reviewing -- which starts with understanding why they wrote the code they way they did. Some people simply understand things differently and what's intuitive to them isn't to others. Consider the code sample I talk about in the following blog post: the only thing that's "wrong" about it is that it's probably not obvious to anyone other than the author. URL: http://www.mikece.com/2015/08/clean-code-vs-really-clever-code/ http://www.mikece.com/2015/08/clean-code-vs-really-clever-co...