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3 points by kens 5909 days ago | link | parent

I find it hard to believe that reading the code can be a replacement for documentation. For example, I would find a one-line description much more useful than trying to figure out:

  (def qne (obj q)
    (atomic
      (++ (q 2))
      (if (no (car q))
          (= (cadr q) (= (car q) (list obj)))
          (= (cdr (cadr q)) (list obj)
             (cadr q)       (cdr (cadr q))))
      (car q)))
Seriously, I'd like to know if I can expect to get to the point where the above is just obvious.


3 points by kens 5908 days ago | link

In case anyone was wondering... this is Arc's enqueue operation, which atomically adds obj to the queue q. Arc's queue data structure provide constant-time enqueue, dequeue, length, and conversion to list operations. My point is that documentation is a good thing, since understanding raw code can be difficult for mere mortals such as myself.

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