I recently hired into a data analytics team for a hospital, and we don’t have a style guide. Lots of frustration from folks working with legacy code…I thought putting together a style guide would help folks working with code they didn’t write, starting with requiring a header for SQL scripts first as low hanging fruit.
Or so I thought.
My counterpart over application development says that we shouldnt be documenting any metadata in-line, and he’d rather implement “docfx” if we want to improve code metadata and documentation. I’m terrified of half-implementing yet another application to further muddy the waters–i’m concerned it will become just one-more place to look while troubleshooting something.
Am I going crazy? I thought code headers were an industry standard, and in-line comments are regarded as practically necessary when working with a larger team…
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Ugh, a Magic String (I call it that whatever the type)
Obviously it should really pull from facility management, but that’s a bunch of moving parts where a constant is how you’d prefer the code to work
Tbh it starts to look better to just define a constant and comment it.
Well…
if (waterPressure > MAX_PRESSURE_BEFORE_YOU_FLOOD_THE_WHOLE_TOWN_OF_IPSWICH_AND_CALNE)
is pretty self-documenting. No comments needed.Although a bit long, I do like this almost impossible to ignore example of self documenting code :)