We are in disagreement. Some of us actually use comments as a way of planning and maintaining our code. This is coming across as religious belief or trolling, not actual development or engineering. If we continue I'm virtually certain we will break out into an argument on tabs versus spaces for indentation.
-- ~ Mike Stemle, Jr. On Feb 28, 2012, at 18:19, James Holmes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Really good tests and self explanatory code do exactly that. Any code that > isn't self explanatory is too complex and needs to be re-factored. > > Code that's so obscure that it needs a comment is silliness. > > -- > Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog > http://www.bifrost.com.au/ > > > On 28 February 2012 23:32, Michael Stemle <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> This reminds me of the time that Ruby's developers told me that unit tests >> obsoleted debuggers. This is silliness. Until unit tests can convey >> developer intent, comments will remain useful. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:350143 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
