On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Eric Seidel <e...@webkit.org> wrote:
> My personal preference (and I'd love to hear from other contributors) > is that code should ideally be self-documenting. > I strongly agree with this point. One pit-fall of adding comments is that it gives an illusion of the increased readability. And I believe making code self-evident to avoid adding comments has been a good driving force in cleanup / refactoring WebKit's code base. On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Darin Adler <da...@apple.com> wrote: > > We also frown on “textbook” style comments. Long block comments that read > like a manifesto about what a code or class will do aren’t typical in > WebKit. > I agree that WebKit code base doesn't usually have a block comment for a class, function, etc... and new code should follow that convention. - Ryosuke
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