> I think comments would be more difficult to review than code, since you'd have to carefully make sure they are meaningful by examining the code, without the context of the programmers involved.
Actually, that only makes them hard to review if you are trying too hard, which defeats the purpose of reviewing comments -- if it is hard to validate the utility of a comment without the context of the programmer involved, its a bad comment and needs, at a minimum, to be clarified.
After all, the whole point of a comment is to communicate information to a future person who lacks the context of the programmer involved.
Actually, that only makes them hard to review if you are trying too hard, which defeats the purpose of reviewing comments -- if it is hard to validate the utility of a comment without the context of the programmer involved, its a bad comment and needs, at a minimum, to be clarified.
After all, the whole point of a comment is to communicate information to a future person who lacks the context of the programmer involved.