I guess that if the person after you can ask you questions, don't comment it.

I have to disagree. What if you leave the company? What if you get run over by a bus? What if you decide to go on vacation (heaven forbid!) and trek around the Himalaya for two weeks?

Even if none of that happens, what happens when the code ships and gets forgotten, then someone decides to dust it off three years later? It's ancient history; will you really remember what you were thinking when you wrote it?

I suppose it's possible to go overboard with documentation, but I guess I find it much easier to ignore something that is there than to fill in something that isn't. I rarely trust myself to be able to remember my own thought process a couple of years down the road, let alone reconstruct somebody else's.

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In reply to Re: Re: Documenting Methods/Subs by seattlejohn
in thread Documenting Methods/Subs by vek

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