I can't resist asking how this theory of actions being separate from persons is supposed to work. If this were so I could do all sorts of naughty things, and then just claim 'it wasnt me, I was just acting like that at the time' .. ?? Also, surely the reason (deep down somewhere), that we do all this cool stuff is so we can walk tall amongst our peers and say 'look I did that', the opposite is also true, if something stupid or unclever is done, we feel responsible/stupid ourselves, when it's pointed out.

Or do you like to distance yourself from your code so that you can't be held responsible when it goes haywire?

I could go on for a while.. But I hope I made some sort of point already.. If the comments are just meant for the code, and not the writer, surely its not too hard to say 'foolish thing to do' rather than 'fool'.

Myself Im convinced you mean exactly what you say and how you say it, and the disclaimer is just to mislead.. But hey, Im going to continue being responsible for my code, and think myself stupid for doing stupid things, and so on. (Just spent several days being responsible for someone elses, since they're on vacation during the customer acceptance test, but such is life..)

C.

In reply to Re^2: A modest request of Merlyn by castaway
in thread A modest request of Merlyn by delirium

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