1 Mar
2002
1 Mar
'02
8:44 a.m.
Quothe Frank McConnell, from writings of Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 09:39:39PM -0800:
No comments? I think you're forgetting the
potential of comments as
things whose maintenance is a lesser priority and whose relationship
to the code may therefore differ from the reader's expectations.
:-)
Another useful thing to do wiht comments is to obfuscate them - for
example, write them in Morse code. Also, it can be useful to have a
program, or script, which strips all *useful* comments from code,
which is ideal for "work for hire" situations; e.g., you want to be
able to read the useful comments for future reference to make your
life easier, but you don't want your employer or cow-orkers to be able
to see them in the copy of the code that they receive, with your copy
of the code saved as an encrypted file.
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