geekyi++; //add 1 to i
but worse can easily be fabricated, like putting the comment in a big flashy box of asterisks. But because of that example, people tend not to really do things like that- especially in code they expect other people to see, right?
I just encountered this litte gem in GnuGo for the TI-89/92+/V200 (was just the TI-89, but I changed that. Yay open source! I also made the cursor work better, implemented handicaps, implemented side selection, improved the endgame code, improved the pass code, fixed a pass-related bug...), in the code global to GnuGo, not the localized code for the calculator:
void genmove(int *i,
int *j)
/* generate computer move */
{
int ti, tj, tval;
char a;
int ii, m, n, val;
int try = 0; /* number of try */
...
Let's think about that for a little. Here at the start of this function, there are nine variables being defined. One of them has a name that is a valid English word that represents exactly what the variable means. The other eight are not full words; of them, only two of them are vaguely self-descriptive. So why the fuck does the one that actually adheres to the ideal of self-documenting code get a comment when nothing else does?
*head explodes*
