Re: How are we doing?

[Peter Beutner]

Vitaliy Margolen schrieb:
> Friday, June 2, 2006, 6:27:18 AM, EA Durbin wrote:
> > > There is precious little "Why" in the comments of a lot of projects - Why 
> > > does this function exist, why would I call it, why does it return what it 
> > > does, etc.
> > >
> > > BS comments like those within the function don't help, obviously - but 
> > > sometimes a comment block describing WHY a given chunk of code does what it 
> > > does would be nice.
>
> I don't see any problems here. If anyone needs to know _why_ some function does
> X - they should look on msdn.

Only that there is no guarantee that the information in MSDN will stay forever ;)
> BTW Alexandre, can we preserve references to bug numbers in patch comments?

Indeed that would be nice.