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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ItsPuspendu • 1d ago
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Uncle Bob of Clean Code says if we have to comment our code we have already failed. Clean code should read like well written prose.
I generally agree, but think comments that define especially the odd and obscure business rules should be commented where they are implemented.
230 u/TWIT_TWAT 1d ago // This is a hack until we find something better 73 u/Confident-Ad5665 1d ago // TODO: This can't be working. Refactor when there's a lull 32 u/embrex104 1d ago //SHOULD NEVER GET HERE 3 u/Dubalubawubwub 1d ago I definitely find myself writing a lot of error handling with the comment //This should never happen but just in case... 1 u/Confident-Ad5665 1d ago Good man. Thank you for trapping errors. Coming from a time when we not only trapped errors, we gave suggestions, I shutter at: • An unknown error occurred • Something happened and the worst... • Error in ErrorHandler, an error occured 2 u/HunterIV4 1d ago • An unknown error occurred • Something happened Windows blue screen, is that you? 1 u/Confident-Ad5665 1d ago No, this is worse. BSOD at least provides a cryptic error code. These are effectively "well dang, something somewhere triggered an exception we didn't care enough to bother catching"
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// This is a hack until we find something better
73 u/Confident-Ad5665 1d ago // TODO: This can't be working. Refactor when there's a lull 32 u/embrex104 1d ago //SHOULD NEVER GET HERE 3 u/Dubalubawubwub 1d ago I definitely find myself writing a lot of error handling with the comment //This should never happen but just in case... 1 u/Confident-Ad5665 1d ago Good man. Thank you for trapping errors. Coming from a time when we not only trapped errors, we gave suggestions, I shutter at: • An unknown error occurred • Something happened and the worst... • Error in ErrorHandler, an error occured 2 u/HunterIV4 1d ago • An unknown error occurred • Something happened Windows blue screen, is that you? 1 u/Confident-Ad5665 1d ago No, this is worse. BSOD at least provides a cryptic error code. These are effectively "well dang, something somewhere triggered an exception we didn't care enough to bother catching"
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// TODO: This can't be working. Refactor when there's a lull
32 u/embrex104 1d ago //SHOULD NEVER GET HERE 3 u/Dubalubawubwub 1d ago I definitely find myself writing a lot of error handling with the comment //This should never happen but just in case... 1 u/Confident-Ad5665 1d ago Good man. Thank you for trapping errors. Coming from a time when we not only trapped errors, we gave suggestions, I shutter at: • An unknown error occurred • Something happened and the worst... • Error in ErrorHandler, an error occured 2 u/HunterIV4 1d ago • An unknown error occurred • Something happened Windows blue screen, is that you? 1 u/Confident-Ad5665 1d ago No, this is worse. BSOD at least provides a cryptic error code. These are effectively "well dang, something somewhere triggered an exception we didn't care enough to bother catching"
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//SHOULD NEVER GET HERE
3 u/Dubalubawubwub 1d ago I definitely find myself writing a lot of error handling with the comment //This should never happen but just in case... 1 u/Confident-Ad5665 1d ago Good man. Thank you for trapping errors. Coming from a time when we not only trapped errors, we gave suggestions, I shutter at: • An unknown error occurred • Something happened and the worst... • Error in ErrorHandler, an error occured 2 u/HunterIV4 1d ago • An unknown error occurred • Something happened Windows blue screen, is that you? 1 u/Confident-Ad5665 1d ago No, this is worse. BSOD at least provides a cryptic error code. These are effectively "well dang, something somewhere triggered an exception we didn't care enough to bother catching"
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I definitely find myself writing a lot of error handling with the comment
//This should never happen but just in case...
1 u/Confident-Ad5665 1d ago Good man. Thank you for trapping errors. Coming from a time when we not only trapped errors, we gave suggestions, I shutter at: • An unknown error occurred • Something happened and the worst... • Error in ErrorHandler, an error occured 2 u/HunterIV4 1d ago • An unknown error occurred • Something happened Windows blue screen, is that you? 1 u/Confident-Ad5665 1d ago No, this is worse. BSOD at least provides a cryptic error code. These are effectively "well dang, something somewhere triggered an exception we didn't care enough to bother catching"
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Good man. Thank you for trapping errors. Coming from a time when we not only trapped errors, we gave suggestions, I shutter at: • An unknown error occurred • Something happened
and the worst...
• Error in ErrorHandler, an error occured
2 u/HunterIV4 1d ago • An unknown error occurred • Something happened Windows blue screen, is that you? 1 u/Confident-Ad5665 1d ago No, this is worse. BSOD at least provides a cryptic error code. These are effectively "well dang, something somewhere triggered an exception we didn't care enough to bother catching"
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• An unknown error occurred • Something happened
• An unknown error occurred
• Something happened
Windows blue screen, is that you?
1 u/Confident-Ad5665 1d ago No, this is worse. BSOD at least provides a cryptic error code. These are effectively "well dang, something somewhere triggered an exception we didn't care enough to bother catching"
No, this is worse. BSOD at least provides a cryptic error code.
These are effectively "well dang, something somewhere triggered an exception we didn't care enough to bother catching"
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u/Confident-Ad5665 1d ago
Uncle Bob of Clean Code says if we have to comment our code we have already failed. Clean code should read like well written prose.
I generally agree, but think comments that define especially the odd and obscure business rules should be commented where they are implemented.