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Only if you don't maintain your code.

Guess what: Comments are part of the code. Like all other documentation!




Snark aside, I think we can agree that there is nothing automatic telling you when a comment is out of date.

If you have a strong discipline of manually checking every possibly relevant comment with each review, I can see how that can mostly work (manual human checks are never perfect).

I've never seen anything close to that process, so it's hard to know how it would work. It seems to require a lot of discipline and effort.




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