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comment [n]

1)	a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief; "from time to time she contributed a personal comment on his account"

Synonyms :

remark

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statement commentate mention ad-lib courtesy gambit obiter_dictum mention observation rib crack barb conversation_stopper banality zinger

2)	a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; "he wrote an extended comment on the proposal"

Synonyms :

commentary

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statement commentate annotate annotation

3)	a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; "the divorce caused much gossip"

Synonyms :

gossip scuttlebutt

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account dish_the_dirt earful hearsay grapevine dirt talk

comment [v]

1)	make or write a comment on; "he commented the paper of his colleague"

Synonyms :

notice point_out remark

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mention remark notice criticise wisecrack kibbitz

2)	explain or interpret something

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explain second-guess disc-jockey

3)	provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases; "He annotated on what his teacher had written"

Synonyms :

annotate gloss

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interpret annotation gloss gloss

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

(Or "remark") Explanatory text embedded in program source (or less often data) intended to help human readers understand it.

Code completely without comments is often hard to read, but too heavily commented code isn't much better, especially if the comments are not kept up-to-date with changes to the code. Too much commenting may mean that the code is over-complicated. A good rule is to comment everything that needs it but write code that doesn't need much of it.

A particularly irksome form of over-commenting explains exactly what each statement does, even when it is obvious to any reasonably competant programmer, e.g.

/* Open the input file */ infd = open(input_file, O_RDONLY);

(1998-04-28)

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