Jarvis, Matthew wrote:
> What gives me great joy is to come across an older yet well documented
> piece of code, with liberal comments describing the situation and design
> ideas, and why things are the way they are.... (anyone ever seen
> something in the middle of some code similar to IF Invoice_No <> "8277A"
> ???)...
You'll see that in my code from leftover specific testing
sometimes...but commented out. I do that when looking at bizarro
customer tickets here at the day job. ("IF stunum=123 THEN SET STEP ON
ENDIF")
>
> Then code changes take place and comments are equally good, but then
> CONTRADICT the previous comments so you don't know which is correct
> anymore...
That's why I use a custom Intellisense script for creating comments.
(*** mjb <<dtoc(date())>> -) Got that from someone here, iirc. I know
Vince uses some custom Intellisense for FUNC/PROC headers, iirc.
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