Great post, showing how these coding guidelines are showing their age. So much boilerplate comments, which clearly are not pulling their weight. A simple codi

Great post, showing how these coding guidelines are showing their age. So much boilerplate comments, which clearly are not pulling their weight. A simple coding guideline like "eliminate all singleton variable warnings" would serve better, and it is enforced automatically to boot. One thing we have learned is that if a coding guideline is mandatory, it just has to be automatically checkable and enforceable.