I agree. I prefer to attach a 5-line comment to 10 lines of code to writing 15 lines of code. If the reader knows the idiom great, if not, he can grasp it witho

I agree. I prefer to attach a 5-line comment to 10 lines of code to writing 15 lines of code. If the reader knows the idiom great, if not, he can grasp it without going into the details. Not everybody agrees, though.