Ask HN: Separate code and comments?

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15 years ago

I have a really weird problem at work. The project that I workon was developed mainly by a single person, and for some strange reason he doesn't want any comments in the code, quite literally.

Since I want to add comments in the code while I browse through the code making small modifications, basically getting accustommed to it, I was thinking about the possible solutions to this case:

* add the comments in my local working copy, then preprocess somehow the source files to strip the comments just before commit. I'm not sure how this will work when pulling/updating from the repo.

* An editor/IDE that have the ability to keep the comments separately as metadata and show them nicely for view/edit in its editor windows. Havent't found any still...

A similar question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1856133/separate-code-and-comments

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