The worth of comments

[Ben Finney]

Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> If the contract comment doesn't match what code does, then there are
> two possibilities -- the comment is wrong, or the code is wrong. The
> appropriate response is to find out which one is wrong and fix it.

You omit the common third possibility: *both* the comment and the code
are wrong.

That's the one that I bet on whenever I notice code and comment don't
match.

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Ben Finney