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point is fine, but I don't see how they are connected.
Unreadable Perl code and bad comments don't seem to support each
other's validity.     • Code that's too tricksy to grok should
be rewritten.        Sometimes code needs to be complicated.
Some tasks are tough and impossible to oversimplify and that can
justify comments. That being said, shoving that code into an
appropriately named subroutine should make it easier.
However, there is one thing that code frequently cannot reveal
and that is why something is being done. Maybe it's easy to see
that the clone of the customer object does not include their
Social Security Number, but that doesn't tel    • > Comments
aren't there to explain the mechanics,     > but to document the
state of mind.      Agreed. However, not all folks use comments
in that manner.      If your code implements a diagonal proof at
one point, Paul wou