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		knowaveragejoe on July 23, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I've never seen a language's style guide recommend... He's referring to the problem of comments becoming out of sync with the code they're referring to. Not everyone updates comments as they update code.

jdbernard on July 23, 2014 [–]

And those people deserve a special place of torment all their own. How hard is it really to update, or at least delete comments that are no longer relevant when you modify the code?

knowaveragejoe on July 31, 2014 | [–]

It's not that it's hard, it just may not be apparent that you need to do so.

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