I have the opposite experience.
Outdated comments are often way worse than no comments, because they can give you wrong ideas that aren't true anymore, and send you off in the wrong direction before you finally figure out the comment was wrong.
Outdated comments are often way worse than no comments, because they can give you wrong ideas that aren't true anymore, and send you off in the wrong direction before you finally figure out the comment was wrong.
if (X) assert(false); // we never do X, ever, anywhere.
if (exact same X) { do_useful_stuff(); }
enum kinds { writers; readers; updaters; }