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Re: Quotes from the Chief Engineer and I

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Originally Posted by King Nerd III View Post
Usually my commenting system is describe variables, say what functions do, and explain certain things. But I went through a phase where I was super commenter, commenting every line! I think I was so tired once I commented a curly bracket. I think it said something like "I don't know why this is here, but I think it ends a function"
Turns out it ended an if statement. Boy was I tired.
Too many comments is as bad as too few. Use descriptive variables, function names and constants then comment on the algorithm.
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