Thanks to an initial article from Brandon Savage the topic of code commenting has been floating around the PHP community and several members have taken the opportunity to express a few thoughts of their own:
- Brandon Savage's blog entry kicking off the discussion by noting that not commenting the code is the "accrual of technical debt".
- In his blog post Marco Tabini mostly agrees with Brandon's comments with one difference - he suggests that correct code doesn't need comments.
- Dagfinn Reiersol takes a more pragmatic approach to the issue and wants to see the code before making a decision on whether the comments are needed or not.
- Benjamin Eberlei reinforces this refactoring idea and suggests staying away from ambiguous names and unclear code practices.
- Richard Thomas notes that comments have their place but they don't need to be taken to either extreme.
- Rob Allen's opinions on Benjamin Eberlei's thoughts
- Brandon Savage's reply to all of the criticism he's recieved over his initial post
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