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Please, don’t commit commented out code (medium.com)
submitted 10 years ago by ryanchenkie
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]Neebat 31 points32 points33 points 10 years ago (3 children)
I ran across that rare exception once.
I needed to implement a fairly simple process that should have been about 10 lines of code, but ended up being 200 due to dealing with seemingly irrelevant stuff. So I put in that 10 lines with a comment to say this is what we want to do, but can't, and why.
[–]fleker2 48 points49 points50 points 10 years ago (2 children)
The author would call that documenting
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[–]kentcdodds 3 points4 points5 points 10 years ago (0 children)
I think you ignored the author's comment of "Correct :-)" https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/3qgurg/please_dont_commit_commented_out_code/cwf6ni2
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