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A comment on Syntax Highlighting Is Backwards (2018). Parent comment

Re:Syntax Highlighting Is Backwards (2018) by nikisweeting on Friday November 29, 2019 @02:56PM (#21666459)
I've people on previous teams that thought this, and their comments were consistently the ones that were the most out-of-date because they never valued fixing them. If you value comment accuracy during PR reviews then you're less likely to end up in that situation in the first place.
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Re:Syntax Highlighting Is Backwards (2018) by throwaway40324 on Friday November 29, 2019 @05:19PM (#21667159)
This. I totally agree.

One fallacy I've seen is a reviewer only looking at the diff on Github, where a minor change in the middle of a function is made, and they don't expand the diff to notice that the new change completely invalidates a comment, params, call signature, return value..etc.

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