On 2012-06-02, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
> Richard makes a really good point that if something that
> hasn't changed in decades is now changed, it would be really nice to
> have a comment in the code about why and not in some checkin message
> that often times is wholly inadequate to explain why.
I just can't get on this bandwagon. There is nothing special about
decades-old code. It's just old, not necessarily better or deserving
special consideration somehow. There is code which hasn't changed
in decades, not because the Programmers of Old were specially
enlightened beings, but because nobody can figure out how the code
works.
best
Robert Dodier