Comments in code are quite often a code smell. Let’s see what is suboptimal about comments and talk about some strategies to avoid them.
Comments in code are quite often a code smell. Let’s see what is suboptimal about comments and talk about some strategies to avoid them.
I think this is also in line with my article, since not being able to put yourself into somebody else’s shoes (or even in yourself future’s ones) is the reason for so much bad comments. But adding a comment to every single line cannot be the solution either, at least not in a higher programming language.