> what ensures that ‘// used a suboptimal sort because reasons’ is updated during a global refactor that changes the method?
replyAnd for that matter, what ensures it is even correct the first time it is written?
(I think this is probably the far more common problem when I'm looking at a bug, newly discovered: the logic was broken on day 1, hasn't changed since; the comment, when there is one, is as wrong as the day it was written.)
But, you've still got an idea of why things were done the way they were - radio silence is....
replyGo ask Steve, he wrote it, oh, he left about 3 years ago... does anyone know what he was thinking?