Why Your Code Documentation is Probably Useless
The Silent Killer: Incorrect Documentation When it comes to code documentation, one of the most insidious problems is incorrect documentation. This is not just a minor annoyance; it’s a silent killer that can turn your otherwise pristine codebase into a minefield of confusion and errors. Imagine you’re working on a critical function, and you come across a comment that reads: // changeDelimiter changes a comma delimited piece of textual data to a colon delimited one func changeDelimiter(sentence string) string { words := strings.Split(sentence, ",") return strings.Join(words, " ") } At first glance, everything seems fine. However, the comment is lying to you. Instead of replacing commas with colons, the function actually replaces them with spaces. This discrepancy can lead to hours of debugging, trying to figure out why your code isn’t working as expected. ...