Re: Commenting style?

From:
"James Kanze" <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
17 Jan 2007 19:40:54 -0500
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clcppm-poster@this.is.invalid wrote:

On 13 Jan 2007 15:59:57 -0500, Dave Harris wrote:

I think trying to line up comments with tabs or spaces is a mugs game.
Including things like:

    int x; // Some value.
    std::vector<int> table; // Some other value.

It's just too much trouble to maintain. [...] And although it
looks prettier I don't believe it is any easier to read.


I hope this won't create an uproar but one shouldn't underestimate the
good effects of pleasure (I mean of the spirit :-)). Our mood does
affect our activities, especially the mental ones.


Agreed. I'd rather maintain esthetically pleasing code.

I think it also passes an important message: that the programmer
cared about the code he was writing. (But not aligning things
doesn't mean that the programmer doesn't care. If it's aligned,
he probably cared; if it's not, you don't know, unless there are
other signs---and there almost always are, if he did care.)

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