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Comment by rumno0

21 hours ago

Yeah some times godoc comments look crap by necessity

But you don't have to add a docstring. Cases like this are worse than no docstring at all, because it wastes the reader's time.

If you add one, at least make the effort to provide some useful information. For example which is more severe: higher or lower numbers.

  • I disagree - you should have docstring and I don't think this is worse by having it... its just not ideal

  • Every public item should have a docstring, even if it's just to indicate that there's nothing special about the item.

  • Boilerplate docstrings are lint that spreads, and stale ones are worse, I've seen sevreity fields documented less clearly than the code they annotate.