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Re:Should I Comment My Code? The Case Against Code Comments by Walkman on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:41PM (#12653875)
First three are "why comments" so they are good. The fourth is not a comment. It should be clear from the code what it does.
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Re:Should I Comment My Code? The Case Against Code Comments by NateDad on Thursday October 06, 2016 @02:20PM (#12654752)
You shouldn't need to look at the implementation of a function to know it's basic functionality.
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Re:Should I Comment My Code? The Case Against Code Comments by Walkman on Saturday October 08, 2016 @07:04AM (#12666499)
So name your function "ensure_line_return"!
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