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Re^2: Why no comments?by talexb (Chancellor) |
on Feb 01, 2009 at 21:21 UTC ( [id://740579]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I'm surprised to see this node has a negative reputation -- I don't disagree strongly enough with it to downvote it, but I think it sets the 'you must comment!' bar a little high. I agree that code/comment mis-matches is a problem -- in that case, I'd rather have no comments than bad comments. Writing down comments on edge cases doesn't make the code more concrete -- comments don't change the code. And I disagree that .. the writing of good comments is not a distraction or an overhead; if the comments get written during development, that's fine. Having to go back and add the comments afterwards is definitely overhead. Sometimes there just isn't time to spend a leisurely week adding comments and generally tightening code up. Pull out some code from CPAN (say) and critique it for us .. we'll be glad to give you some feedback. :)
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