RE: Line-by-line commenting in source code

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

I ran across this one a few months ago... man, do I empathize:

/* Include Windows header - it gives us some types which we'll use in 
 * preference to defining our own. (Assuming MS doesn't decide to change
 * the definition of BYTE!!)
 * Avoid any redefinition warnings... [ad 9-1-98]
 */

Tom Liotta

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   9. Line-by-line commenting in source code (James H H Lampert)
>
>Am I the only one who, when line-by-line comments (either RPG or MI) start
>to form a sentence with a few words on each line, finishes out the series
>of comments with a line that simply says, "Burma Shave"?
>
>Does anybody else have quirky little bits of comic relief in the source
>code? Like my tendency to put allusions to Jadzia or Ezri Dax into the
>comments on code that deals with JOINED files? Or a colleague, who was a
>real fan of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," naming some input or output buffer
>"BUFFY"?

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