[openstack-dev] writing comments as complete sentences

Renat Akhmerov rakhmerov at mirantis.com
Wed Jan 15 19:05:12 UTC 2014


I absolutely agree with that. Honestly, I don’t even understand why it can be different (not compliant with regular grammar rules). Comments are supposed to clarify things so they should be worded very clearly and read as normal English sentences. Additionally it’s one of the small bricks that the entire coding culture is built of.


Renat Akhmerov
@ Mirantis Inc.

On 14 Jan 2014, at 06:00, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 08:01 -0500, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>> Ned Batchelder had an interesting post a few days ago about why code
>> comments should be written as complete sentences, rather than
>> fragments. The main point is that with an unterminated phrase or
>> sentence fragment it isn't always clear that the thought has been
>> completed (i.e., maybe the full comment isn't even present in the
>> code). 
> 
> # Supported.
> 
> -jay
> 
> 
> 
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