do you guys help newbies??

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Wed Nov 27 10:57:51 EST 2002


In article <r2c9uusgkvesmqout846rdge47bg5tui6d at 4ax.com>, malik m wrote:

> #initialize variables
> totalMilesDriven = 0 #total miles driven
> 
> totalGallonsPerTank = 0 #total gallons per tank
> 
> counter = 0 #bogus counter

Here's a style hint:  Get rid of the comments above. 

 0) It's obvious you're initializing variables.  No comment
    required.

 1) You picked good names for the variables, so the comments
    describing the variables are just distractions.

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