Learning Squeak

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Mon Jan 21 14:47:06 UTC 2002


On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 08:26:15PM -0500, Doug Way wrote:
> 
> Les Tyrrell wrote:
> > 
> > From: David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
> > > 
> > > <gripe>
> > > Nonsense, the tools are not the problem. Posting classes with no class
> > > comment and methods listed in the 'as yet unclassified' category is just
> > > plain sloppy. It takes 10 minutes to write a comment and put methods into
> > > meaningful categories, and it takes your readers many times that long
> > > to figure out how things work if you don't bother.
> > > </gripe>
> > 
> > BAH!  I believe the tools can definitely have an impact.
> 
> I agree 100% with Les on this.  Making the comment appear by default will
> make it more obvious that one is being 'sloppy' by not including a comment.

You're right, and I should not have suggested otherwise. Sorry.

I continue to hold my opinion about posting undocumented code (but I
won't gripe about it any more ;)

Dave




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