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by nonrandomstring
1001 days ago
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Tangential, but see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37583258 Explaining "why" is often (revealing) more about how the programmer is
thinking at that moment. It reveals hidden or ineffable knowledge
about how the coder arrived at that point/design, and may reveal
intent not explicit in the code itself. Mismatches between the declarative and imperative have often been
where I've found bugs. Especially in my own code when trying to
explain it to myself in a comment opens my eyes to an error. Those "why" comments are our stories about our code. |
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