The worth of comments

Grant Edwards invalid at invalid.invalid
Sun May 29 10:43:57 EDT 2011


On 2011-05-29, Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Ben Finney wrote:
>
>> You omit the common third possibility: *both* the comment and the code
>> are wrong.
>
> In that case, the correct response is to fix both of them. :-)

Only as a last resort. IMO, the best option is to fix the code so it's
purpose and operation is obvious from the code, and then delete the
comment.

-- 
Grant






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