That's a good perspective. "will it compile, and does it look vaguely correct?" can still be helpful though. Imagine you're learning Rails, and haven't learned

That's a good perspective. "will it compile, and does it look vaguely correct?" can still be helpful though. Imagine you're learning Rails, and haven't learned all the idioms yet. Me leaving comments such as "this would be better as a before filter", "try to avoid metaprogramming unless you have to (and you don't have to here)", etc