I agree with you on this, in every detail. Especially if the maintenance programmers comments are of one of the following forms:
- ## See rt #1234
- ## See perlmonks node: 123456
- ## See change log item buk 08-05-2007
- ## A new element (TIME_OF_DAY) was added to the array
- ## See file DB_object for a description of the elements of the array
- ## The data is denormalised (fields are duplicated) for efficiency.
That's just a few that come to mind.
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