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you can get even crazier if you add in plenty of spurious logging # print out the value of x prior to increment print("x value prior to increment: %d" % x) #

you can get even crazier if you add in plenty of spurious logging # print out the value of x prior to increment print("x value prior to increment: %d" % x) # increment the value of x x += 1 # print out the value of x after increment by one print("x value after increment by one: %d" % x)

arethuza 14y ago
I've seen quite a lot of code that kind of looks like this: // Increment the total log.Debug("total before increment=" + total); total++; log.Debug("total after increment=" + total); I find myself looking at it and going where is stuff actually happening! I sort of wish someone would allow comments and logging to be combined as language features.
- theorique 14y ago
  Hm, my code didn't format as intended. What you wrote is what I meant.
- einhverfr 14y ago
  The typical case where this happens is that the logging was added because of some bug somewhere and this was put in place to figure out what was going on with total. See it as an archaeological record more than anything else ;-)
- throwaway-864 14y ago
  Check out Smart::Comments module in Perl [1]. It allows the specially-formatted comments to produce debugging output. From the synopsis: use Smart::Comments; my $var = suspect_value(); ### $var ### got: $var ### Now computing value... # and when looping: for my $big_num (@big_nums) { ### Factoring... done factor($big_num); } while ($error > $tolerance) { ### Refining---> done refine_approximation() } for (my $i=0; $i<$MAX_INT; $i++) { ### Working===[%] done do_something_expensive_with($i); } [1] https://metacpan.org/module/Smart::Comments https://metacpan.org/module/Smart::Comments
  - einhverfr 14y ago
    Noooooo..... Not magic comments............. Magic comments are evil, the pox of the earth, etc. I have nothing good to say about comments as code. This totally messes up the separation between code and comment.

arethuza 14y ago

I've seen quite a lot of code that kind of looks like this: // Increment the total log.Debug("total before increment=" + total); total++; log.Debug("total after increment=" + total); I find myself looking at it and going where is stuff actually happening! I sort of wish someone would allow comments and logging to be combined as language features.

theorique 14y ago
Hm, my code didn't format as intended. What you wrote is what I meant.
einhverfr 14y ago
The typical case where this happens is that the logging was added because of some bug somewhere and this was put in place to figure out what was going on with total. See it as an archaeological record more than anything else ;-)
throwaway-864 14y ago
Check out Smart::Comments module in Perl [1]. It allows the specially-formatted comments to produce debugging output. From the synopsis: use Smart::Comments; my $var = suspect_value(); ### $var ### got: $var ### Now computing value... # and when looping: for my $big_num (@big_nums) { ### Factoring... done factor($big_num); } while ($error > $tolerance) { ### Refining---> done refine_approximation() } for (my $i=0; $i<$MAX_INT; $i++) { ### Working===[%] done do_something_expensive_with($i); } [1] https://metacpan.org/module/Smart::Comments https://metacpan.org/module/Smart::Comments
- einhverfr 14y ago
  Noooooo..... Not magic comments............. Magic comments are evil, the pox of the earth, etc. I have nothing good to say about comments as code. This totally messes up the separation between code and comment.