An outdated comment is still a datapoint! Including if the comment was wrong when it was first written!
We live in a world with version history, repositories with change requests, communications… code comments are a part of that ecosystem.
A comment that is outright incorrect at inception is still valuable even if it is at least an attempt by the writer to describe their internal understanding of things.
We live in a world with version history, repositories with change requests, communications… code comments are a part of that ecosystem.
A comment that is outright incorrect at inception is still valuable even if it is at least an attempt by the writer to describe their internal understanding of things.