Question regarding commenting code

Roman Suzi rnd at onego.ru
Thu Sep 6 01:32:07 EDT 2001


On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Tim Roberts wrote:

> Roman Suzi <rnd at onego.ru> wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Andrew Gould wrote:
> >
> >>When adding comments to scripts, can I insert lines of comments inside a
> >>loop block?  For example:
> >>
> >>for n in a_list:
> >># separate values using spaces as delimiters
> >>	a_line = string.split(n)
> >># get the first value
> >>	a_value = a_line[0]
> >># print the first value
> >>	print a_value
> >
> >This is not good.
> 
> However, without judging the moral implications, this IS legal.  I assume
> that was the purpose of the question.

...and this code is hard to maintain. That is why it is bad.

Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi
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