> On Sep 1, 2015, at 1:43 AM, Matt Graham <matt_graham2...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for responding so quickly guys!
> 
> FYI John, I’m not planning on commenting line by line - just commenting all 
> the methods/variables/structures so that people can see how things interact 
> whilst browsing doxygen pages. I’ll try to get around to reading your 
> recommended book, but it probably wont be for a few days.
> 
> I like Derek's idea of commenting blocks of code, but I'll probably only do 
> this for areas that look really hard to understand (and probably more for 
> myself than for submission).

Matt,

Just to be clear, Doxygen comments should describe how to use a function: What 
it does, variables, return values, and side effects, etc. How the function 
works should be in plain comments and should be limited to explaining bits that 
are “hard to understand”, i.e. not idiomatic. 

Regards,
John Ralls


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