How many of you go back and tidy up your code?

[RandomCoder]

And I thought you were a Scout with the reference to the Scouts rule.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1016630/Dyb-dyb-dyb-Baden-Powell-got-right.html
It translates to "do your best", with the response "we'll do our best"

 

[Troberg]

Ah, I see. I'm not familiar with the Scouts, I've only seen the rule I mentioned in programming discussions.

 

[Computersmith64]

I must admit that I'm very slack at commenting code - unless I'm writing it for someone else, or I know someone else will be looking at it! I do however often go back & refactor code - generally for one of two reasons:

1) I am having a performance issue with something & need to make it work better; or
2) I have learned something that makes me realize the way I initially wrote the code was not the best.

I'm a firm believer in the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mantra & the fact that there are always multiple ways to achieve a result in code (the old "more than one way to skin a cat" saying), but I also recognize that sometimes I don't always "skin the cat" in the best way the first time...

- Colin.