[swift-evolution] [Proposal] Replace all Swift comments by end notes.

[Rien]

-1

Comments should be part of the “flow of thought”.
Moving them away from where they are needed is counter productive.

Note that you can never force a bad programmer to become good.

Regards,
Rien

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> On 17 Jan 2017, at 12:30, Alex Blewitt via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> On 16 Jan 2017, at 15:28, Amir Michail via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Why not replace all Swift comments by end notes at the end of each source file so as to minimize the impact of misleading/outdated comments on code comprehension?
> 
> A strong -1 from me. Moving comments aside from the place where the code is defined is going to maximise outdated comments, not minimise it.
> 
>> You don’t necessarily need to scroll to the end of the source file to read a referenced end note in the code since the IDE could show a popup whenever the mouse pointer lingers over an end note reference (e.g., a number/label).
>> 
>> Maybe this would encourage programmers to write more self-explanatory code while keeping (end note) comments to a minimum?
> 
> This proposal would certainly discourage having accurate comments.
> 
> Alex
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