You often read about the value of code comments and good meaningful variable/method/object names. Yet sometimes when your coding your under presume to release a patch, or you think to yourself who wouldn’t understand this code it’s so beautifully laid out and formatted.

Today I fell victim to my own beautifully laid out and formatted code. Yikes!

...
 and left(accno, 1) in ( '2', '3', '4', '5', '9' ) 
...

I’m sure at the time I was very familiar with why accounts that started in that range were important but a few months on I cannot remember.

From this day forth I promise to do Code as Documentation mum!