[LLVMdev] LLVM maintainers, code reviews

Renato Golin renato.golin at arm.com
Thu Nov 11 04:54:45 PST 2010


On 11 November 2010 12:42, Kenneth Uildriks <kennethuil at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a big fan of putting such things *in the code* as comments.  It
> does logically go with that bit of code, after all.

For some things, yes. But describing design decisions in comments gets
either incomplete and scattered or too verbose and scattered. ;)

I once had to do maintenance on a Python script that had 3x more
comments than code. I never read them...

-- 
cheers,
--renato




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