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Are they ‘what?’ or ‘wat?’ comments? Maybe that’s the difference?


what, opposed to ‘why’ or ‘how’


No, I understand that part; but, I think of a "what" comment as "incrementing value of X"

a "wat" comment, like the meme, is more of a "this is a really weird blob of code that might be obvious when you break the whole thing apart; but, what it's doing is _this_ this is the implementation of it because we have a complicated data structure that's connecting all these pieces"




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