Kay Smoljak
Mon, 18 Dec 2006 03:15:27 -0800
On 12/18/06, Barney Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kay Smoljak wrote: > At least you will know where to look, instead of trying to work out > which combination of backslashes and asterisks fixed the particular > issue for which version. One would hope that this information would already be somewhere in your head when you implemented the hack.
I suspect that in essence we're agreeing, Barney, but I would point out that sure, you might remember what hack was implemented for a particular problem now - but what about in two years time or when you're working with someone else's code? If I had the choice of a hack or a more verbose but blatently obvious conditional comment, I'll take the comment every time. -- Kay Smoljak business: www.cleverstarfish.com standards: kay.zombiecoder.com coldfusion: kay.smoljak.com personal: goatlady.wordpress.com ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************