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Re:x2 Why I'm a Pod::Naziby grinder (Bishop) |
on Nov 22, 2001 at 17:53 UTC ( [id://126967]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Absolutely not. This is a maintenance disaster waiting to happen. When the functionality of the code changes, either the comments stay in sync through prodigious efforts of discipline (that I, in 18 years of coding, have yet to encounter), or the comments drift away from what the code actually does. Hence the dictum: Debug the code, not the comments. That is not to say that such information is not useful, quite the contrary. But it should be extracted by programmatic a posteriori source code analysis. Think lint. Relieve yourself of work that you can get a compiler to do for you. And then there's the issue that this is eight lines of comments for what is probably one line of Perl... --g r i n d e r
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