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From: Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Invade wikipedia!
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:28:59 -0800 (PST)
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On Feb 24, 11:03=A0pm, Adam Beneschan <a...@irvine.com> wrote:
> On Feb 24, 1:27 pm, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
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> <spam.jrcarter....@spam.acm.org> wrote:
> > Hibou57 (Yannick Duch=EAne) wrote:
> > > On 24 f=E9v, 15:50, Martin <martin.do...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> > >> Could we agree get rid of the box comments, e.g.
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> > >> =A0 =A0------------------
> > >> =A0 =A0-- Do_Something --
> > >> =A0 =A0------------------
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> > >> =A0 =A0procedure Do_Something ...;
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> > >> Cheers
> > >> -- Martin
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> > > Please, help me to understand : what's the trouble with this ?
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> > In this particular example, the comment adds no value.
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> I would not expect *any* comment to have *any* value coming from a
> programmer who would name a procedure Do_Something.....
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> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0-- Adam

Sorry my made up example doesn't cut mustard! Does this make it any
clearer? :-)

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-- Calculate_Velocity --
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procedure Calculate_Velocity
             (Speed    :     Meters_Per_Second;
              Time     :     Seconds;
              Velocity : out Meters_Per_Second_Per_Second);

Cheers
-- Martin