> What's the point of comments then if your general rule is that it should be fine to edit code without changing the comments?
Not without changing the comments. Without stopping to ponder how two paragraphs of comments fit into the code changes. The comments (aside from API documentation) should annotate the code, not the other way around.
Not without changing the comments. Without stopping to ponder how two paragraphs of comments fit into the code changes. The comments (aside from API documentation) should annotate the code, not the other way around.