Mark Atwood said:
> It may be that people don't read comments, but even more true that they don't
> read "another file". Comments have a prayer of being seen.
I think it depends on the nature of the comment.
Comments that refer to a bug/issue number don't add much clutter. I use them
as a m
> I read on the Internet that comments are useless. I occasionally notice them
> despite the fade to gray tendency. Yeah, I ripped out the following. It was
> essentially invisible in my not-an-ide and the rat brain is fallible.
> - /*
> - ** Classic Bug 2672: Some OSes (MacOSX, Linu
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021, at 3:20 PM Hal Murray via devel
wrote:
>
> [Context is retrying DNS lookups when an interface appears.]
>
> James Browning said:
> > When combined with some other code in the DNS path it is wrong-headed.
> "let's
> > retry DNS every 5 minutes or whenever someone acts on the n
[Context is retrying DNS lookups when an interface appears.]
James Browning said:
> When combined with some other code in the DNS path it is wrong-headed. "let's
> retry DNS every 5 minutes or whenever someone acts on the netlink socket, and
> pack on extra pool servers until we have twenty." It
