About the presence of alter procedure?

Is it a good practice to leave the alter procedure statement in a stored
procedure? Does it affect the execution in any way? Is it common to comment
the statements out until needed again?
<%= Clinton Gallagher
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://www.metromilwaukee.com/clintongallagher/I'm a bit . Where would you remove it from? Once the procedure is
altered, the "ALTER" is not really there anymore.
To illustrate this, try the following on your end:
CREATE PROCEDURE proc_x
AS
RETURN
GO
ALTER PROCEDURE proc_x
AS
RETURN 1
GO
SELECT ROUTINE_DEFINITION
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES
WHERE ROUTINE_NAME = 'proc_x'
GO
DROP PROCEDURE proc_x
GO
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> Is it a good practice to leave the alter procedure statement in a stored
> procedure? Does it affect the execution in any way? Is it common to
> comment the statements out until needed again?
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> <%= Clinton Gallagher
> NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
> URL http://www.metromilwaukee.com/clintongallagher/
>