In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gerhard Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >conclusion for me: they must not like self-documenting code... :)
Oh dear. So if the code is wrong it is self documenting? Comments document what the code should do. The code shows what the code actually does. Also from a maintenance perspective reading comments is a lot faster than reading the code. For a whitespace significant language this can be very helpful when the formatting gets mangled for some reason. There is no such thing as self-documenting code. People that say they don't need to document their code because its self documenting - no hire. I've been writing and selling software for 23 years now and I still keep hearing this bull about self documenting code. Sigh. Stephen -- Stephen Kellett Object Media Limited http://www.objmedia.demon.co.uk/software.html Computer Consultancy, Software Development Windows C++, Java, Assembler, Performance Analysis, Troubleshooting -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
