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I agree with the OP that this is a positive sign. The only thing that surprises me it that it seems to be a free-format arrangement of a word that can be used in a positive way. We have a magic comment word ("kludge", if you must know) that we use for code that we wish we had time to write better; that in principle allows us to go back and find things to fix after the fact, or helps troubleshooting since kludges are more likely to break.



I'm not terribly creative with code I write for others. Since I've been doing a lot of Java recently, using Eclipse, I stick with

  // TODO:
Which has the added benefit (in Eclipse) of creating a tiny blue box in the vertical source error/warning/status bar (I'm not sure what it's official name is) so I have a visual cue to see where I have unfinished business (Kludges are unfinished business that you might get to next day or never, but even if it's a glorious hack, if you think its a hack and not a "proper" way to do it, its still unfinished business. In a prior project we used to use "glorious hack" as a special comment to use as the first places to investigate when something broke.




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