Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes: > 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.
Eh? It's a bad comment, it's of the same quality as: > x = x + 1 # Add one to x. You think the former is good because (I guess) you are not familiar with the language. The same reason why beginners comment their code like in your example. -- John Bokma j3b Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
