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    311 year ago

    That’s like saying a book’s synopsis shouldn’t exist because you can just read the whole book. Sometimes comments can save you a lot of time and point you in the right direction.

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      21 year ago

      Nah, it’s not, code is modular (IME should be kinda tree-structured), a book is linear.

      So the API should be in your analogy the synopsis. And I haven’t said, that there shouldn’t be any comments. E.g. doc-comments above functions, explaining the use-cases and showing examples are good practice.

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        11 year ago

        Books can be modular as well (ever heard of “Rayuela” by Cortazar?) But that’s beside the point. The analogy is fine and it works.