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Frist things frist ... we now leave room by reducing room by 16 characters? Or pixels? Is this what "leaving" room means? You remove room?
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I suspect the
getCcolumnSizereturns how many characters or pixels wide the UI space is. They computemaxLenas that minus 16 units.Then on some subsequent line we don't see, they trim the presentation of whatever data value to that length, thereby leaving 16 units of room before or after to decorate the value with whatever annotations or other insanity they desire.
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The comment does, at least, seem to be getting ready to explain why we call that function in that way.
And it might be complete, in a slightly British(1), and definitely idiosyncratic, way. Previous comments talk about what the thing that needs room is, with this comment saying the equivalent of "leave some room for [[that stuff I just talked about.]]" (That is, the object of the preposition is completely implied.)
But it would have been better to finish the statement, and with something more direct and specific than "that stuff I just talked about".
(1) The French sometimes say (in French, natch) something very similar.
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maybe the comment got cut short because he left the room?
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Leave some room for the gabagool! Ohhhh!
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Obiously, we have to make room for daddy: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhhDyRPaIV-FHqt1gOA0MporHbygMKFOY
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Leave some room for... "LeaveSomeRoomFor".
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More than likely, they were writing the comment but got distracted by something else and just forgot to finish it.
I have done that before, but for some reason, I end up dealing with the file in a way that I see I forgot to complete it. If there was a big enough change and the comment was meant to be the last thing handled with this file, I can see why it may have slipped through the cracks during a comment.
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But remember, there's always room for pie.
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Save room for Jello?
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About those sentence fragments