If I had to change something temporarily by commenting it out, I'd be wanting to leave any comments in the code. That way, if i ended up UNcommenting it again, the restored routine would still have the comments in it. If that segment of code is permanently disabled, I'd probably remove it, along with the comments.
So yes, it's quite possible that code I work on could have nested comments. But that would be deliberate. The worst job I've ever had to do was work on a 1500 line file, where the IT Director had ordered that all comments be removed 'because they only make the file bigger and take longer to load'. The structure of the code was peppered with '<cfif clientid = '423'> style customisations and all carriage returns and comments had been removed. It took me hours to simply find the line i was supposed to correct. So yes, any commented out code I work on will have its embedded comments remain. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Matt Quackenbush <quackfu...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Based upon what I have seen, I would say that "legit" comments inside of > commented-out code is extremely common. > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Michael Dinowitz < > mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote: > > > > > I know that we all remove unused code and don't comment it out. I know > > we all use best practices in commenting code. > > Lets assume you were working on someone elses application that did not > > do these things and had comments in their code comments. How deeply > > nested have you seen comments on average? > > Have you seen comments on code which has in turn been commented out > > leaving the comments as the second level nested rather than the first? > > Worse? > > > > > > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:350141 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
