> Notice that it takes a web page to comment this
> code?  I sort of have a rule that if it takes more
> lines to comment a bit of code then the code
> takes, then the code is too complicated.

I think your argument holds only when you compare two solutions that
require a compareable number of code lines, and one requires much more
comment lines than the other. A lot of things (involving vertical
counters and other clever constructs) can also be done by 'simple' code,
but when a very compact coding style is the only way to squeeze the
application in the code space and/or CPU time that is available there is
no other solution to compare it to, so it wins by default.

And you might know (or not) that Scott spends some of his time hacking
at a PIC compiler (at least he used to). Now do yopu or don't you want a
compiler to create compact yet unreadable (at least to you) code?

Wouter van Ooijen

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