Hi William,

> About comments--  personally, I never read them -- I've never found a
> bug or fixed a bug in the comments. :-)
>
>
I did find bugs in comments, and sometime fixed them. The code is saying
something, comments the contrary. Which should the authoritative answer ?
Should code do what comments say ? Or did code was fixed, but comments not
updated ? That's why comments should be read, and updated as needed.

FWIW, JSG says: "The comment should describe why your code does its thing,
not what is does. That should be obvious from the code itself.". We could
add one I like: "by obvious, we mean: if you're not able to explain loudly a
piece of code, before your very first coffee the Monday morning, then your
code isn't obvious"...

Cheers,

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