Re^2: "Cleverness" from HOP

[chromatic]

Am I naive in thinking you can write clever code so long as your commenting for it increases exponentially with respect to "unit" increases in cleverness?

Yes; comments are far too often a maintenance burden.

I want the intent of my code to be clear on reading the code itself. Where it's not, I try to rephrase the code for clarity. Where that's not possible, I use a comment to explain the motivation.

[demerphq]

Agreed. Comments should explain the why. The what should be blindingly obvious from the code.