[Lazarus] Documentation style
Jürgen Hestermann
juergen.hestermann at gmx.de
Sat Jul 23 15:29:45 CEST 2011
>> Many descriptions only describe the obvious, like method names
expressed
>> in more words. Such descriptions are quite useless, and should be
>> replaced by more informative ones. I'd suggest to remove all these
>> descriptions (replace by a todo-marker?), until somebody can describe
>> the elements better.
> I doubt that this should be done for all.
> What if the method just does what the name says?
Then no extra documentation is needed. But just repeating the name with
other words is realy ridiculous. I am always annoyed by such obvious
statements. If there is no further useful information then don't write
anything. But I doubt that there is any function/method where the name
is enough to fully make use of it. Even if the name already gives a hint
of what a function does there is a lot more information needed to make
fully use of it and to avoid side effects caused by (false) assumptions.
I was trapped by such things already very often.
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