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Future maintainers, who could be you. It has happened to me a few times, and I thanked my past self every time.

It doesn't even have to be clean code. Sometimes I'll even settle for understandable code. In my experience, however, few people care about this. My most common comment in code review is "add doc" or "add explanation"



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