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Voxera111107y@filthyranter I sometimes commit commented code if its code to be, where the dependencies are not in place.
Writing a stub, commenting it out and adding a todo line so it shows up in the todo list is a good way to quickly finish up once all else is done. -
ripbit3727y@Olverine @filthyranter Of course. I should've made it clear.
I was carefully doing the Ctrl-Z Ctrl-Y surgery to get back the code I deleted prematurely. The dev saw me doing this a couple of times and decided to drop those words of wisdom that would guide me to this day. -
Why oh why?
Use local history of your IDE. Use version control. Never let commented code stick around.
I consider this an anti-pattern. -
This is exactly why our codebase is littered with commented out code.
My colleagues adhere to your advice, but then always forget to delete it before committing... -
Never delete C code. comment it out, but prefix it with a newline trigraph so that it looks like a comment but still executes.
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No worries when using Android Studio since it has local history. Xcode sucks it doesn't have that feat π
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When I'm about to rewrite some code, I always comment out the old code first, sometime i can reuse some of the old code.
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Make sure you don't commit commented out code, one of our projects is full of commented out code and nobody dares to remove them (because they *might* be "important")
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Voxera111107y@filthyranter and thats where source controll like git is the way to go.
Especially since commented code might not light up as removed in a diff, at least not at clear.
So every “rule” has its exception :)
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