Yeah, I'd say that it's important, as is the link nearby to another blog whose author (kevindooley) seems to be busily debunking the gleeful distortions of the leaked emails by the anti-GW crowd. His technique seems to simply be to restore the cherry-picked quoted text and code to its proper context to reveal with it really means.
In the case of this tiny code snipped, any codemonkey would recognize it as a bit of test scaffolding, dummy values to input into an algorithm to see that the expected values come out. Sure enough, kevindooley finds where the generated values are used later, in the code conveniently omitted...and the line is commented-out. It doesn't execute. Sad to say, my own code is littered with thousands of examples of abandoned scaffolding and experiments and diagnostics like that, mostly commented-out, a few overlooked, lurking to hatch into bugs someday. It looks all too familiar to me.
So relax. Going all cargo-cult over some code you don't understand won't take you anywhere you want to go.
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