Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Code Comment WTF? Part 209

Found this in a snippet today:
-- ********************************
-- End of Package Body

END package_pkg ;
/
Seriously? Was that necessary? Could I possibly be under the illusion that it is not the end of the package?

Stop it.

Now.
at

6 comments:

  1. Jeffrey KempMarch 9, 2010 at 2:45 AM

    Without the comment, one might have thought that was the end of the package spec - the comment saves all the work of scrolling up to see what one is looking at :)

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  2. moleboyMarch 9, 2010 at 7:58 AM

    Here's one I saw not that long ago.

    --get wonum, changedate, description --from workorder
    cursor getWorkorder is
    select wonum, changedate, description from workorder

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  3. Clever Idea WidgetryMarch 9, 2010 at 8:51 AM

    -- BEGIN comment

    /* I think you are missing the point
    * because you think that anything
    * less than commenting everything
    * that could be commented upon is
    * simply not going to cut on my
    * development team.
    */

    -- END comment

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  4. moleboyMarch 9, 2010 at 10:15 AM

    Could be worse...
    you could have comments like

    /*do some stuff*/

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  5. jpiwowarMarch 10, 2010 at 2:46 PM

    Comment WTFs are fun. I used to leave comments like this in my own code:

    # Someone is going to hate me for this later.
    # That someone is likely to be me.

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  6. John TMarch 11, 2010 at 6:56 AM

    I think TOAD or something generates those stupid little comments...

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