From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-07-18T00:44:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax "surprise"

Hi,

In message "Re: Syntax "surprise""
    on 02/07/18, Kent Dahl <kentda@stud.ntnu.no> writes:

|Ugly workaround using array expansion:
|  opts = GetoptLong.new(*[
|    [ "--verbose", "-v",  GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT ],
|    [ "--yesterday", "-y", GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT ],
|  ])

Wow, I was just writing the same workaround.  You're a mind reader.

|But I'd have to argue against allowing trailing commas in method calls
|(and definitions), on the basis that it could make it easier to write
|methods that take a lot of parameters. IIRC, a large number of
|parameters to a method is a "code smell", and allowing the trailing
|comma would be like spraying some fresh pine scent on it to cover it...

Wow, in fact, it used to accept trailing comma in argument list, but I
removed that syntax rule for the reason you described here.

							matz.