TODO and FIXME tags

Martin P. Hellwig martin.hellwig at dcuktec.org
Tue Nov 17 06:27:03 EST 2009


Ben Finney wrote:
> Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> writes:
> 
>> 2009/11/16 Yasser Almeida Hernández <pedro.al at fenhi.uh.cu>:
>>> How is the sintaxis for set the TODO and FIXME tags...?
>> There is no special syntax for those. Some people use them in
>> comments, but it's just a convention.
> 
> This is true. However, the convention is fairly well established, and
> many text editor default configurations will highlight the strings
> ‘TODO’, ‘FIXME’, and others wherever they appear in comments.
> 
> There's no widely-followed “syntax” for this convention, though.
> 

Except for _not_ doing what is suggested in those comments, which 
appears to be the biggest convention :-)

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