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# Comment Prefixes
Comments have prefixes using
[Conventional: Comments](https://conventionalcomments.org/)
as a **loose** guideline, and using this markdown file as a
the actual guideline.
This document will be updated on an _as-needed_ basis.
## The rules
- A comment line always looks like this:
- A whitespace character
- Optional prefix matching `/[a-z-]+\([a-z-]a+\):/`
- A whitespace character
- The comment
- Formalized prefixes must follow the rules below
- Any other prefix can be used. After some uses it
might be good to formalize it, but that's not a hard rule.
## Formalized prefixes
- `todo:` is interchangable with the famous `TODO:`, **except:**
when lowercase (`todo:`) it can include a scope: `todo(security):`.
- `track:` is used to track common patterns.
- Anything written after `track:` must be registered in
[track-comments.md](../devmeta/track-comments.md)
- `wet:` is usesd to track anything that doesn't adhere
to the DRY principle; the following message should describe
where similar code is
- `compare(<identifier>):` is used to note differences between other
implementations of a similar idea
- `name:` pedantic commentary on the name of something