From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: paul.winalski@gmail.com (Paul Winalski) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:37:41 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised In-Reply-To: References: <20180321141753.25C4418C088@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <6c6699c0-15db-604a-181c-7dad282599e1@kilonet.net> Message-ID: On 3/21/18, George Michaelson wrote: > > I think with short circuit evaluation and side-effects in C, this kind > of code is especially worth commenting: people need to remember the > right hand side of a complex set of expressions might actually not > have done anything. > One thing that is always worth a comment is Perl regular expressions. A prose description of what the regex is supposed to match can save someone else a lot of time. -Paul W.