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From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: The Last Word on Comments (was Re: Hungarian notation)
Date: 1996/06/29
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In article <4r1bdp$3ib@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us>
           z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us "Ralph Silverman" writes:

>        suppose discussion relates to
>                working code
>        yes
>        ?
>
>        source
>        is determinative of behavior,
>        certainly,
>        in a way comments can not be,
>        yes
>        ?
>
>        comments can be wrong in a
>                        ^^^^^
>                fundamental way
>        source is not,
>        yes
>        ?
>
>        on this view comments
>                are less to be trusted!

If you approach comments as telling you what the code is supposed to do
rather than what it actually does then comments are useful and can be
correct where the code is wrong.

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Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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