From: Tim Hunter <Tim.Hunter@...>
Date: 2002-07-18T02:48:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax "surprise"

C allows a trailing comma in initializers:

int foo[] = {1,2,3,};

The justification (iirc) was that it made it easier to write programs
that generate C language statements.

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 16:42:09 GMT, Brad Cox <bcox@virtualschool.edu>
wrote:

>Still, its a shame ruby adopts the same shortcoming as java.
>
>Its not a language's business to prevent users from writing "smelly" code.
>
>Long argument lists are common in data initialization contexts, and 
>misplaced commas a extremely common problem, that's actively 
>manufactured by this rule.
>
>	@@instance = SomeClass.new(
>		"127.0.0.1",
>		8083,
>		"hostname.com",
>		blah,
>		blah,
>		whoops,
>	);
>