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Is it a good practice to comment code that is removed? For example:
// Code to do {task} was removed by Ajahn on 10/10/08 because {reason}. Someone in my developer group during a peer review made a note that we should comment the lines of code to be removed. I thought this was a terrible suggestion, since it clutters the code with useless comments. Which one of us is right?
Generally, code that is removed should not be commented, precisely because it clutters the codebase (and, why would one comment on something that doesn’t exist?).
Your defect tracking system or source control management tools are where such comments belong.