The alternative stance is that if it's already bad, can't hurt to make it worse ;) Something you could do to alleviate this is to interleave comments with the

The alternative stance is that if it's already bad, can't hurt to make it worse ;) Something you could do to alleviate this is to interleave comments with the original Amber source, along with line numbers (which would balloon the script size, but probably not a huge deal). Edit: you could also bundle a tool to recover the original Amber source from those comments, to allow for easy in-the-field script edits and/or audits.