CompuServe Messages

Well comments help alot when they're accurate, and they can save you alot of time. However, its it not your code how can you know that the comments are accurate w/out looking at the code? That's the big problem, that you often can't know how conscientious the author of the code was about keeping his comments accurate. So you're usually forced to examine the code in detail anyway. The only time detailed comments work is when you know for sure that the person who wrote them wrote them well and for a reason, which is usually not the case. -Mike