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  • I didn’t say the source of failure. I said a source of ambiguity. And having also been in the industry for decades, I have encountered it many times, where a junior programmer or somebody new to a project read some documentation and assumed a behavior which in fact did not match the current implementation. So you may have been fortunate, but your experience is certainly not ubiquitous.

    With respect to variable names, I’d suggest those too should absolutely be updated too if the name is given in a way that adds ambiguity.

    I’m not saying comments are bad; rather that bad comments are bad, and sometimes worse than no comment.


  • And your colleagues are probably correct with respect to this sort of «what it does» commenting. That can be counterproductive because if the code changes and the comment isn’t updated accordingly, it can be ambiguous. Better have the code be the singular source of truth. However, «why it does it» comments are another story and usually accepted by most as helpful.







  • A bunch of people that either failed to understand the value of the moderation system or are just crybabies about being expected to follow the rules answering here.

    It is easy to use and not nearly as toxic as most of the internet will claim. Research your question, ask clearly, include the code you attempted for a minimal reproduction, and include debugging details. If you don’t do those things, you are the problem, not the people closing your questions.

    I use it often per month.