From: Evan Martin <martine@...>
Date: 2002-07-18T05:55:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax "surprise"

Brad Cox wrote:
> Didn't mention keywords because that's really the best tool for this 
> job, but  unsupported in ruby. When that's fixed I'll withdraw my 
> objection.

It's pretty near supported, though:
(From my Evas-Ruby[1] docs:)

text = evas.new_text(
   :x => 100, :y => 100,
   :fontname => "Verdana_Bold", :fontsize => 10,
   :text => "Evas test succeeded!"
)

And in a hash you *can* use the extra comma.

Tim Hunter wrote:
 > C allows a trailing comma in initializers:
 >
 > int foo[] = {1,2,3,};

And Ruby has the same style in initializers.
But even C doesn't allow you to call functions like that:
printf("hello %d", 23,);

[1] http://neugierig.org/software/ruby/evas/evas.html