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That, or if you really have to use more, have a standard comment to mark such occasions so you can come back later and understand/fix it.

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> so you can come back later and understand/fix it

But, of course, that's very unlikely to happen.

Sure it does. Right when you're writing/updating the documentation.

I think you would come back to it when you're having a critical issue impacting lots of users and to fix it, you finally need to understand that code.

Exactly, it means the same thing, never.

I maintain a rather large code base and have found several

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