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I tend to think of comments as historical documents. A snapshot in time of the original programmers intention but not necessarily still a valid representation of the state of the program, especially if other hands have been in the mix.

Joe

Comments lie...

Trust but verify...

Charles

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Jerry C. Adams<midrange@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I can't say that I disagree. However, I have seen the opposite problem;
i.e., the program logic changes, but the documentation isn't changed. More
than once I have tried to make sense of a program in which I could see that
it was doing one thing, but the documentation said something different.



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