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I have a recent personal experience of this. Half a year ago, I did some intricate mangling of a query language. The delivery schedule was really, really tight. People reading my code, complained that all the comments made it hard to read. That was a first. :-) With less time pressure I would generally refactor code this complex, so it wouldn't need all the explanations. (Not so "clever" -- more "dense". Just an OO interface to the code's internal data structures would have helped a lot with clarity.) The code more or less followed Perl Best Practices, but was still an example on how not to do it... :-( Edit: Refactored this comment a bit, so it is possible to parse. :-) In reply to Re^2: "Cleverness" from HOP
by BerntB
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