Roger.  I added a comment to explain that it was commented out because it was created later dynamically, as needed.  I think it's a good idea to have such a comment in such places because it's not obvious to someone looking at the code for the first time that that is what the commented-out code is trying to convey (it usually looks like old code that should go away).

I also added a _TODO_ comment so that everyone realizes that the 'patches' object is in transition.

These changes are in 'dfc40b5'.