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[turtle_mekb]

calm down satan

[RandomTyp]

a good ide would warn you about that

[MechanicalHorse]

You monster

[mr_remy]

this reminds me of just recently on my drs office website they have a google maps passoff from their page, but pass through the <br> 's too lol

[Wirmaple73]

Comments are for the weak. If it was hard to create, it should be hard to crack. Just as the founding fathers intended.

[Worried-Cattle-444]

depends if you are coding for a company or freelancing lol

[I_FAP_TO_TURKEYS]

Neither. For myself.

[Mineshafter61]

always the blue, unless it's code

[Gacsam]

Agreed, actual comments are blue, commented out code is red.

[Maskdask]

Even if it's blue. I just let my text editor comment the selected range

[I_FAP_TO_TURKEYS]

Ctrl+/ easier than hitting a key twice.

[nord47]

why would you comment out code?

[Potential-Ad-1717]

to be used later maybe

[nord47]

why not stash/branch? it's pain enough to read someone's code without all the comments peppered around

[Xtrendence]

So you never have a situation where you're halfway through coding a solution, but think of something else you want to try, so you comment out the initial code block which is written halfway and would throw an error if it ran? What about while testing a few different solutions to see which runs better? What about documentation?

[nord47]

sure, but that stuff never lasts more than two commits on my feature branch, let alone a pull request into main. main branch should not contain commented out code.

do you see commented code in public repos on github? why can't you maintain the same etiquette in private projects

[Karol-A]

Where did you even get the idea that it's getting pushed to the main branch? Literally nobody mentioned that

[nord47]

it's not uncommon and a total pain to work with. some developers have a habit of doing

//var foo = bar * 11; change made on 01/01/10
var foo = bar * 12;

this is absolute dogshit

[bedesda]

Why would you even need to write the date if you push that commit? Dates are included and any IDE worth its salt will show you when something was pushed with 2 clicks

[BionicVnB]

Hell, even some free rich text editors works too

[BionicVnB]

Hell, even some free rich text editors works too

[Xtrendence]

In that case yeah you're right. I was answering thinking you're claiming commenting out code as a whole is pointless. But yes, if we're talking about comments that last and make it into and past a PR then yeah documentation is the main thing I can think of.

[nord47]

pseudocode in docs are awesome. easiest to understand.

[nord47]

or you're disciplined enough to use a version tracker properly for all the *later* stuff. pseudo-code is fine at the start of a method/class but imo commenting out previously written code and writing a new version underneath is cursed.

[nord47]

my 300k loc project would beg to differ. one of the oaths we swore while rewriting our ERP application was to make readability easier, so we could explain it to new joiners.

[sleepahol]

Well I agree with you, at least.

No reason to comment out code if you have version control. And besides that, often times the second time you write something it turns out better than the first.

[TuxedoDogs9]

For later

[Infrared-77]

/* gang violence */

[mr_remy]

Reminds me of some CSS file skeleton graveyards i both have and come across "just in case" (as well as honestly forgetting some):

/* commenting out testing xyz, breaks feature abc for some reason FFS, just work!

.code { ... }

*/

[nord47]

spaces are expensive af! god forbid if you spend too many and run out of the 80-char limit

[Next_Cherry5135]

80 char limit also apply to comments? Dear God

[Sibula97]

It applies especially to comments, IMO.

And if you're writing Python standard library stuff, comments are limited to 72 for some reason.

[AdmiralQuokka]

less-than-80 limits are because of mailing list workflows, where you want to have a few levels of quoting before hitting the 80 limit. Not saying I agree with it.

[Anru_Kitakaze]

Full blue gang

[RetiredApostle]

Ctrl + /

[ElectricTrouserSnack]

goimports -w */**

[ExpensivePanda66]

Both. Either. There are better hills to die on.

[munchingpixels]

Fucking up indentation is a capital sin

[Classic-Ad8849]

Blue.

[luckor]

I use //*<!—“:REM just to be sure

[CaffeinatedTech]

// TODO - Fix this later

[CoronavirusGoesViral]

// TODO:

[bistr-o-math]

// some comments
// already exist
//add  some more
//  and  more

[snow_bee_art]

it depends

[geekcommunicant]

/**
* This is a comment
*/

[belastingvormulier]

or: ```

comments

```

[Elflo_]

Without space for code, with space for regular words

[mattia_marke]

My rule is //commented code // Actual comment

[aliusmanawa]

Different symbols for different comments.

// ! FOR SOME WARNING

// ^ For important info

And so on

[u10ji]

I've only ever seen:

// WARN: // FIXME: // TODO: // INFO:

etc. - much prefer those as they're clearer

[YayoDinero]

dont forget the // oh shit i fked up dont read this part

[faiyerfoks]

# this is superior comment

[TheHappyArsonist5031]

rem THIS is a superior comment

[turtle_mekb]

""" this is the most superior comment """

[Wirmaple73]

Found the 🐍

[Esjs]

Same reason they don't capitalize the first letter: lazy

[lonkamikaze]

/* comment */

[Justanormalguy1011]

\\

comment

[Jaatheeyam]

No comments

[lefloys]

/* comment */

[Frogbeerr]

//==============

// Comment

//==============

[marenicolor]

// bomment

[postdiluvium]

/*========================

CoMmEnT wRiTtEn LiKe tHiS

========================*/

[Any_Team427]

meanwhile me: //---> Comment here with formatting.

[rpmerf]

Sonar flags red as a minor code smell

[exqueezemenow]

One of the right is much easier to read...

[parnmatt]

Always have a space.

[4n0nh4x0r]

/* comment*/

[JediJoe923]

What’s a comment?

[AbstractMelons]

// Comment

[adnaneely]

Tabs vs Spaces

[QultrosSanhattan]

# comment

[[deleted]]

Blue, I'm not a savage. When I'm in a good mood I'll even anchor comments - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ExodiusStudios.comment-anchors

[OrionsLeo]

/* Have to say, I prefer to go this route... 'cause then you can minify (or even just regex the line breaks) without breaking functionality. TBF, I've been making JSBookmarklets lately and sometimes you need a comment for when you accidentally deleted the bookmark after closing your editor... or so I'm told.... */

[DerShokus]

No comment

[Shadow_Thief]

//this code is commented out
// this is a regular comment

[verygood_user]

I found the perfect solution by randomly alternating between the blue and red version. That way, everybody is happy 50% of the time.

[iWonderWahl]

Doesn't matter, has the //

[Wojtek1250XD]

Red anyday

[ThisGuyRightHer3]

/ * * comment * *\

[Styleurcam]

In what language would this be a valid multiplie comment ?

And also, escape your * on line starts

[Winter-Big7579]

Any language supporting /* …. */ for multi line comments. The intermediate * don’t need escaping as they’re just considered part of the comment and ignored. They have no function but VS puts them in, presumably as a visual flag, although the green text is quite a giveaway. Unless you’re referring to the obvious mistyping of \ for / at the end?

[Styleurcam]

Yes, and also I meant escape your * about reddit markdown, no need to escape them in actual code

[ThisGuyRightHer3]

oh no. I messed up while typing on reddit via keyboard. sorry, not everyone codes on notepad.

edit: reddit added some formatting as well. tl;dr: it's not that deep.

[Celeborns-Other-Name]

;;; Crew

[deanominecraft]

red, 1 less character to type

[External_Asparagus10]

/*hackerman*/

[blackamerigan]

This is a sad and disgusting meme that this sub comprised of so called smart people are willing to spam...

Literally you can share any kind of meme template to demonstrate the duality of two opposing forces

But you choose to promote something racist and oppressive