bl00dninja

yeah, too many comments, it made me not want to bother (i'm goin' to bed soon anyway)

if they're there b/c of a gay class requirement, then just delete them when you post.


is gonna earn you about 3.7 kicks to the nuts.

;-)

or just three if kicksToTheNuts is an int.
or i could templatize or typecast the code and get even more kicks to the nuts. your best bet is bool's (either one or zero).

wanna RO-SHAM-BO?

:p

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peace_of_mind

Much as I hate to detract from a thread, that's about the funniest shit I've read in a good while. :p

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What is up with all the comments.

If your teacher/professor tells you to comment like that then please ignore them when you write stuff that is not for your course. It makes to code much harder to read. The crap with the "/*if*/" and /*while */ is a real waste of time. I know that some professors like students to use them but that it is such a waste of typing and they never make the code any easier to understand. You might as well program in some basic dialect if you cant figure out proper code indentation and brace matching.

The best code is always self documenting. My view on commenting is to make all the identifier names as clear for their purpose as possible. Header comments are never good as you write them once, then later you might go back and update you code and then you forget to update the comment. So they are forever out of date. If you have good design documentation this sort of information should be in there and not cluttering up your code.

Comments should not be used to explain poorly written obscure code. If you find yourself writing long comments to explain what your code does then think about redesigning and rewriteing that code to make it more self explaitary. Comments are the lazy programmers excuse for obscurity.

The bottom line is that comments should never state what is happening but say why it is happening.

sixstringartist

thats a good mentality. I'll remember that.

King

bl00dninja, that is probably the funniest post I have seen on here.

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Ooble

You obviously haven't seen BN's other posts.

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bl00dninja

yeah, the first time i saw POM use that it said SPAMMER above (reference to some crappy job offer guy) so i thought people were offended by it. it wasn't until today that i realized he made it his sig.

thanks guys, i'm honored.

i have a weird sense of humor, especially when it comes to mixing high intellect with toilet humor. the contrast results in hilarity.

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bl00dninja

oh, and to add something positive, yeah, explain what your functions do, pre/post, whatever. for long nested loops an can do wonders for matching braces and such. for class i overdo the comments too (a prof has to grade a lot of shit, he'll appreciate it). another good time for buku comments is if you're using a whole lot of these:

and remember, too few comments and even YOU won't remember what the fuck you were thinking at 2:00am on june 11th.

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