Worse: You may created the proof. You may have linked to the proof. But if anyone has touched any of the code involved since then, it still has no value unless someone has re-done the proof and linked that. (Worse, it has negative value, because it can mislead.)

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skydhash 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Not really. A quick git blame (or alternative) will give you the required information about the validity of such proof.

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dullcrisp 11 hours ago | parent [-]

You must have some git plugin I haven’t heard about.

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skydhash 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Git blame will show the commit and the date for each line. It’s easy to verify if the snippet has changed since the comment. i use Emacs and it’s builtin vc package that color code each block.

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AnimalMuppet 9 hours ago | parent [-]

But you need the snippet and, potentially, the entire call tree (both up and down).

	▲	dullcrisp 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And anything that can affect relevant state, any dependencies that may have changed, validations to input that may have been modified; it’s hard to know without knowing what assumptions the assertion is based on.