• Zagorath
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    51 year ago

    Comments explain why, not what. Any comments that explain what a section of code is doing would probably be better off as separated methods.

    Apart from basic documentation comments, like JavaDoc or C#'s XML documentation comments.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      There’s nothing limiting what a comment should be as far as I know.

      As an example of what I mean, I’ve seen in a 10k+ lines python code a few lines of bit manipulation. There was a comment explaining what those lines did and why. They didn’t expect everyone to be proficient in bit manipulation but it made it so that anyone could understand anyway.

      • Zagorath
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        21 year ago

        There’s nothing limiting what a comment should be as far as I know.

        Nothing technical, sure. Just good coding practices.