ORACLENERD: Code Comment WTF? Part 209

Code Comment WTF? Part 209

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Found this in a snippet today:

-- ********************************
-- End of Package Body

END package_pkg ;
/

Seriously? Was that necessary? Could I possibly be under the illusion that it is not the end of the package?

Stop it.

Now.

Labels: code, funny, oradb, style, wtf

¶ 3/09/2010 01:38:00 AM

Comments:

Without the comment, one might have thought that was the end of the package spec - the comment saves all the work of scrolling up to see what one is looking at :)

# posted by

Jeffrey Kemp : March 9, 2010 at 2:45 AM

Here's one I saw not that long ago.

--get wonum, changedate, description --from workorder
cursor getWorkorder is
select wonum, changedate, description from workorder

# posted by

moleboy : March 9, 2010 at 7:58 AM

-- BEGIN comment

/* I think you are missing the point
* because you think that anything
* less than commenting everything
* that could be commented upon is
* simply not going to cut on my
* development team.
*/

-- END comment

# posted by

oraclenude : March 9, 2010 at 8:51 AM

Could be worse...
you could have comments like

/*do some stuff*/

# posted by

moleboy : March 9, 2010 at 10:15 AM

Comment WTFs are fun. I used to leave comments like this in my own code:

# Someone is going to hate me for this later.
# That someone is likely to be me.

# posted by

jpiwowar : March 10, 2010 at 2:46 PM

I think TOAD or something generates those stupid little comments...

# posted by

John T : March 11, 2010 at 6:56 AM