I’m pretty picky when it comes to how I look at my code. My tastes might even be a bit unique — I like things really small, colorful (earth-toned rainbow), and highly differentiated. There are so many things that I value in a scheme that I decided to try and collect them here. I use [...]
It’s amazing how many different purposes there are for code comments. Most comments are treated the same by compilers/interpreters — ignored. But humans have their own semantics based on some established conventions. And “meta-processors” also do a lot with these; e.g., generating documentation, running tests, executing debug statements, locating tickets, assigning to variables, syntax highlighting [...]