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0 pointsmilansm10y ago0 comments

> so you can come back later and understand/fix it

But, of course, that's very unlikely to happen.

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dave200010y ago· 2 in thread

Sure it does. Right when you're writing/updating the documentation.

I think you would come back to it when you're having a critical issue impacting lots of users and to fix it, you finally need to understand that code.

logicrook10y ago

Exactly, it means the same thing, never.

frogpelt10y ago

I maintain a rather large code base and have found several

    // FIXME

comments in random places, put there by people who no longer work here.

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