• Aux@lemmy.world
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    4 个月前

    Hard disagree - that’s just dumb:

    // Calculates tax
    function calculateTax() { }
    
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      4 个月前

      Hard disagree - that’s very helpful:

      // Calculates Personal Income Tax by formula from section 1.2.3 of tax code. Other taxes like VAT are not calculated.
      function calculateTax() { }
      
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        4 个月前

        If it calculates personal income tax, just call calculatePersonalIncomeTax.

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            I’m a new developer. Is that referring to page 123 of the in-house documentation? Version 12.3 of the code? I have no clue.

            You’d have to call it something like calculatePersonalIncomeTaxPerTaxCodeSection1_2_3, but I get exhausted just looking at that. There comes a point where the cognitive work of reading crazy long camel case names is more trouble than it’s worth.

            An explanation of what specification a function was written to implement is a perfectly appropriate comment. Could be improved by a direct link where possible. But it’s worth noting what that comment isn’t doing - specifying any implementation details. For that, I really can just read the code.