On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:09:36 -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > Reminiscent of: > > mov AX,BX ; Move the contents of BX into AX
That's a *good* comment, because without it most English-speaking people would assume you were moving the contents of AX into BX. > And, yes, I've actually seen that as well as: > > ; This is a comment Which might be a good comment, if it were part of an unfamiliar file format where the reader were not expected to know what is a comment and what is significant. For instance, I've seen similar comments at the top of config files. However, I'm pretty sure that a comment like this is inexcusable: x = x + 1 # Add one to x. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
