There’s a difference between ” it hasn’t changed because it doesn’t need to be changed” and ” it hasn’t changed because it’s impossible to predict the impact of any change, and no one wants to be responsible for things breaking”.
I was once spelunking a file that hadn’t been touched in like 7 years, and there was a weird line where it was adding 2 to the index for seemingly no reason. The comment was like // Sam: not sure why this is off by 2 here. See ticket #12345 for discussion
Whatever issue tracking software it was referencing was no longer used, so that ticket was gone, and who TF is Sam?
There’s a difference between ” it hasn’t changed because it doesn’t need to be changed” and ” it hasn’t changed because it’s impossible to predict the impact of any change, and no one wants to be responsible for things breaking”.
I was once spelunking a file that hadn’t been touched in like 7 years, and there was a weird line where it was adding 2 to the index for seemingly no reason. The comment was like
// Sam: not sure why this is off by 2 here. See ticket #12345 for discussionWhatever issue tracking software it was referencing was no longer used, so that ticket was gone, and who TF is Sam?