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Sometimes good names etc. don’t help. Think of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_ro
by croes 10mo ago
Sometimes good names etc. don’t help. Think of this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
That definitely needs a what comment.
- Scarblac 10mo agoYes of course, sometimes there is no understandable way to write the code and comments are the best way. But there's also the case to be made that the comments that particular code needs are "why" comments. I can see what happens, but why does it work?
- croes 10mo agoWhy does it work or why was the code written? The article mentions the reason for the code which I would expect in the commit message