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From: jcm@hgc.edu (James McKim)
Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
Date: 1996/06/06
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Date: 1996-06-06T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <4p49vq$etm@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us> z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Ralph Silverman) writes:

[...]

>
>	the idea,
>	that
>		comments should
>		outlive and outlast
>			original code
>		when that code has been modified...
>	is extremely horrifying and bizarre!

Um, well, not to me, or at least not in all cases. If the comments
represent the _specification_ of a routine as opposed to the implementation,
it is quite common for the code to evolve substantially with no change
to the comments.

I'm reading this in comp.lang.eiffel. To a limited extent, Eiffel supports
the compilation of rigorous comments that specify a feature. In the ideal
this means that if the code and the comments do not remain synchronized
you usually discover the problem very quickly.

>
>	however,
>	this does raise an intersting question...
>		version control for comments!
>
>*********end r.s. response***************
>Ralph Silverman
>z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us
>

Hope this helps,
-- Jim

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