Comment terminology

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Jenk
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Re: Comment terminology

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in our workshop, "commented code" gets deleted on sight. We've only found it to cause confusion and wear out our scroll wheels :)
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in our workshop, "commented code" gets deleted on sight. We've only found it to cause confusion and wear out our scroll wheels
Ditto...I have SVN to show me old code if needed. :P
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Re: Comment terminology

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Comments are for those of us that are either not patient enough to let our desktop environment compile every time we install*, and too lazy to check out old code from subversion**.

*This is despite Gentoo's inherent awesomeness.
**I'm also too lazy to learn the SVN commands.
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omniuni wrote:Yeah, I'd still call it code. "Bad Code" or "Wrong Code" or "Erroneous Code" yes, but still, it's code because it will be parsed and then it will DO something. In this case throw an error. If you add the semicolon, it will reserve a bit of memory and store a value.
Yeah, that sounds right.
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Thanks Kai! I'm a mediocre coder, but I do retain command over the English language... sometimes. :drunk:


Edit: That icon is to represent me celebrating an apparent victory, not to indicate that I get drunk and lose command of the English language.
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