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Aren’t all code comments for noting something?




I typically use those when the following code does something emunexpected, relies on external state or is setting state relied on by something else.

There are times where you can’t rewrite or refactor something or have Toni’s ran API with non-obvious behavior. Plus NOTE is shorter than HERE BE DRAGONS




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