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Currently, By default, there are some 'todo' templates, which explain how to change them, like : * To change the template for this generated type comment go to * Window>Preferences>Java>Code Generation>Code and Comments A quick google search for Window>Preferences>Java>Code Generation>Code and Comments gets over 40,000 hits. this shows something quite simple: although its easy to change, most users do not bother to. they simply ignore it, sometimes not even noticing it at all. so, in practice, although well intended, this comments crap the source code of many people, who are too lazy/blind/indifferent to fix it, and upseting co-workers who are not indifferent to these comments. after the 10th time of trying to educate lazy co-workers to fix it, I figured that a better solution will be not to put it there in the first place. so, I ask you to re-consider the placement of such todo notes in default templates in future releases of eclipse.
I also hate seeing those things in shipped code. A possible solution would be to add no comments per default but have Quick Assists to: - enable adding of comments (maybe with a wizard to configure them first) - add a comment What do you think Martin?
+1 for removing the sentence pointing to a preference page. +1 for not adding comments by default.
The settings can be per project, so it's easy to make them disappear once you've created a project.
