I just wrote some code that looks like this:

  my @logs = <LOGFILE>;
  chomp @logs;
#XXX: map { &mung_log_entry($_) }, @logs;

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Now, this isn't really the same kind of "commented-out code in production" that we've been arguing about; it's more of a pseudocode comment to tell me that I've been thinking about munging up each log entry after reading them all in. In this case, I think that writing the comment as "code" is more legible (mostly in that it doesn't break up the flow of code on the page) than writing in a little note in prose:

  my @logs = <LOGFILE>;
  chomp @logs;
  # Mung up each log entry?

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Eh. Matter of opinion, I guess. I think that the "code" comment more accurately conveys what I was thinking at the moment (even if it is an Evil Use of map In A Void Context -- hey, I said it was pseudocode).

Update:Yes, foreach would be clearer than map, but I've been thinking in terms of map lately.

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In reply to Re: Commented out production code? by FoxtrotUniform
in thread Commented out production code? by t'mo

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