Re:Avoid Else, Return Early (2013)
by loup-vaillant on Monday March 26, 2018 @05:15PM
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> It was generated by an IDE
Not all of it, actually.
> nobody had to physically type that
We totally had to read that.
> And usually no developer will be dwelling on this object or this area of the object.
Well… yes, usually. Sometimes however we did want to pay more attention than usual. At that point the original dev would have made a real comment. And that comment was lost in the noise, so you couldn't even distinguish between real comments and useless boilerplate.
Not all of it, actually.
> nobody had to physically type that
We totally had to read that.
> And usually no developer will be dwelling on this object or this area of the object.
Well… yes, usually. Sometimes however we did want to pay more attention than usual. At that point the original dev would have made a real comment. And that comment was lost in the noise, so you couldn't even distinguish between real comments and useless boilerplate.