Comment by bleuarff
10 hours ago
I'm wary of external urls in code. Some plaintext comment would come in handy for the day the link inevitably goes dead.
10 hours ago
I'm wary of external urls in code. Some plaintext comment would come in handy for the day the link inevitably goes dead.
Why could external URLs be a problem? And is it still one if you swap https to hxxps or something? What could go wrong with having a URL as a comment in code?
I put URLs there sometimes and think it's very helpful.
You don't control these external resources, and now the explanation of what your code does is tied to a site that could be taken down tomorrow, leaving you with a dead link and an unexplainable regex.
Agreed- I'm all for comments explaining a RegEx, but not hyperlinks in comments. The link inevitably goes dead and now you've left a helpful-looking present in a comment with dust inside.