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 Sometimes
>> I'll drop in suggestions to future maintainers like, "consider
>> refactoring with with perform_frobnitz_action()"
>=20
> Usually, I address future-me with comments like that (on the
> assumption that there's nobody in the world sadistic enough to want to
> maintain my code). But I never name future-me, the comments will be
> addressed to "the subsequent maintainer" or somesuch. I do assume,
> though, that future-me has forgotten everything about the code, and
> since past-me left some comments that current-me has read, I think the
> assumption is fairly accurate. (Did I *really* write that code? It has
> my name on it.....)
>=20
> Chris Angelico
>=20

Rather than sadistic, one would likely be masochistic to undertake the maint=
enance of  my code :-) I have had many moments where I have later asked the q=
uestion "Did I write this code?."=