We need to capture data on corner cases

[Mark Atwood]

> I read on the Internet that comments are useless. I occasionally notice them despite the fade to gray tendency. Yeah, I ripped out the following. It was essentially invisible in my not-an-ide and the rat brain is fallible.
> -       /*
> -       ** Classic Bug 2672: Some OSes (MacOSX, Linux) don't block spoofed ::1
> -       */
>  
>> Should we collect the descriptions in another file and add pointers both ways?
> 
> Possibly. If it happens I would like to start the name suggestions with 'codescars' after [1] and something I thought I had read on an Internet site but can no longer find there.
> 

It may be that people don't read comments, but even more true that they don't read "another file".  Comments have a prayer of being seen.

I like the term "codescar".  Do feel free to use it and add searchable tagged comments in the source code.

..m

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