Re:Useful and useless code comments
by aspaceman on Friday June 18, 2021 @01:07AM
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Yup. I love this style of using code to create a "paragraph" of code with a section heading. You don't always want to separate out a function, but you do want the advantage of "titling" a section of code.
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> You don't always want to separate out a function,
Why not? The above could have easily contained a `ensureDirectoryExists(item)`. It would have the benefit of being more reusable, too.
An earlier submission has a lively debate between these two approaches. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12120752