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by damnitbuilds 164 days ago
"do not permit your API to have any behaviours, useful or otherwise, which someone might depend on but which aren't part of your design goals"

I can not follow this law by making my API depend, say, the contents of a string value. Preventing APIs depending on the value of a comment is no different, so your argument is not a reason for not having comments.