Re: We need to capture data on corner cases

2021-02-07 Thread Hal Murray via devel
Mark Atwood said: > It may be that people don't read comments, but even more true that they don't > read "another file". Comments have a prayer of being seen. I think it depends on the nature of the comment. Comments that refer to a bug/issue number don't add much clutter. I use them as a m

Re: We need to capture data on corner cases

2021-02-07 Thread Mark Atwood via devel
> I read on the Internet that comments are useless. I occasionally notice them > despite the fade to gray tendency. Yeah, I ripped out the following. It was > essentially invisible in my not-an-ide and the rat brain is fallible. > - /* > - ** Classic Bug 2672: Some OSes (MacOSX, Linu