timebomb-comment,
from Runa (now Staples
Innovation Lab), makes sure that comments stay up-to-date. This is pretty
serious business!
(defmacro timebomb-comment
"Used to comment things out that we want to force ourselves to come
back to by a certain point in time in order to resolve later."
[timestamp-long & body]
`(if (<= ~timestamp-long (System/currentTimeMillis))
(throw (Exception. "Timebomb comment has passed its due date."))
(comment ~@body)))I’ve definitely felt pain from old & busted comments, and this kind of thing would sure motivate me to keep anything remotely old out of the codebase.