From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-07-07T21:43:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Hashes don't allow preceding commas by design?

Peter Hickman wrote:
> So if we read through a couple of examples:
> 
> 1: {
> 2: :first => 1,
> 3: :second => 2
> 4 }

But I think the question is why the following isn't allowed:

{
:first => 1
,
:second => 2
}

I'd say it's just a quirk of the parser, and/or the fact that the 
language doesn't have a formal grammar.
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