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Re:Well-Commented If Statements Make Software Robust by bern4444 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @09:06PM (#29859105)
I agree and even for my own side projects, where I'm writing everything I often forget different parts.

We end up spending a lot of time naming things (variables, functions, classes etc) well, we forget we can also just include a longer description to help.

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Re:Well-Commented If Statements Make Software Robust by GianFabien on Saturday January 08, 2022 @10:43PM (#29859797)
It happens to me quite a bit. I come back to some code I wrote a couple of years ago. At the time the logic was "obvious". Now, I need to puzzle it out all over again. So I retrofit a suitable comment so that next time I won't be doing the same blank stare.

For me, most of what passes for programming is "refactoring" and fixing edge-cases.

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