Re: Comments

From: Mark Vaughan (mavaughan_at_earthlink.removethis.net)
Date: 06/23/04 

Date: 23 Jun 2004 04:56:28 -0700

"Kristofer Skaug" <ya.ierfgnf@thnxf.x> wrote in
news:40d955fd$1@newsgroups.borland.com:

> Myself I tend to comment rather more than less, when in doubt. I
> have too many times noticed that "simple, obvious" things (to me)
> are far from obvious to a colleague who has to jump in and fix
> something in my code.

I've come to the same conclusion...but not necessarily to
assist my colleagues...it's frequently a matter of self-
protection. things that are blindingly obvious when you're
deeply immersed in a problem can become intractably opaque
15 years down the road :^D 

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Mark Vaughan
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