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by alpaca128 1239 days ago
Sure, but I don't think anyone would call this a useful comment - it's exactly the kind of comment which should be avoided.

Comments don't need to describe what the code does, but if there's an unexplicable line which handles an obscure edge case you better add a comment or even you won't remember why that line exists 3 months later.