[Gllug] More Microsoft patents

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Wed Feb 12 15:26:42 UTC 2003


On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 03:12:56PM +0000, Jason Clifford wrote:
> > Alain Williams previously wrote:
> > > Individual statements can be hard to understand in some languages -
> > > this is  +where perl can be difficult - but a comment saying *what* it
> > > does is all that is needed.  +If you need to change it, you take the
> > > time to work out *how* it does it.
> 
> My understanding is that he is advocating commenting to describe where you 
> use a specific "difficult" statement so as to avoid confusion not every 
> statement.

Exactly what I intended to say.

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Alain Williams

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