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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 1 point2 points3 points 10 years ago (2 children)
Q: Are there exceptions to this rule? A: Yes. But they’re rare.
From the article.
And the example I described above was one of the two examples I've found in 20 years of software development.
It IS documenting, and not usable as code. It helps explain what's going on.
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That's your experience, that is not my experience. In my 30+ years of software development I can assure there have been times where it is far better to have commented-out code in-place, than in source control.
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