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Throwing the baby out with the bath water. I'd much rather have good comments.
by Muzza 14y ago
Throwing the baby out with the bath water. I'd much rather have good comments.
- Confusion 14y agoThe problem is that comments are often only good the first few times you read them. After heavily hacking on some code for a while, you know the comments. I find the ability to fold comments very valuable.
- Retric 14y agoUnfortunately, that tends to lead to vary stale comments which hinders the next developer.
- Confusion 14y agoYes, I admit that in code reviews, staleness of comments is a thing that tender to get pointed out to me. However, I've since developed a procedure (review comments belonging to any hunk of changes) to prevent that.