On 2011-05-27, Irmen de Jong <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 27-05-11 15:54, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2011-05-27, Ben Finney<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Richard Parker<[email protected]> writes:
>>>
>>>> On May 26, 2011, at 4:28 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> My experience is that comments in Python are of relatively low
>>>>> usefulness. (For avoidance of doubt: not *zero* usefulness, merely
>>>>> low.)
>>
>> I've seen plenty of comments who's usefulness was not zero. It was
>> less than zero.
>
> Someone once taught me, "There is one thing worse than having no
> comments in the source code: having incorrect (or 'lying') comments
> in the code."
>
> Grant, I guess you hint at such comments?
Yes. :)
When trying to find a bug in code written by sombody else, I often
first go through and delete all of the comments so as not to be
mislead.
The comments reflect what the author _thought_ the code did
_at_some_point_in_the_past_. What matters is what the code actually
does at the present.
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