Well put it this way. If humans read a different document from the computer, you have a problem. The fact that there are programmers who do not understand how to code well is their problem. If you rely on such programmers and have put no thought into communicating your requirement that the code have decent quality, then their problem has become yours.

Bad programmers are a hazard to your code-base. So give them feedback and review. Doing that up front saves energy in the end over letting it pass and cleaning up after. A stitch in time and all that.

BTW I do comment most subroutines. Input arguments, brief description, and return. Often only the ones that are meant to be used outside the module though...

In reply to RE (tilly) 3: My philosophy on coding (in Perl and other languages): by tilly
in thread My philosophy on coding (in Perl and other languages): by mrmick

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