From: Jeremy Henty <jeremy@...>
Date: 2002-07-18T17:09:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax "surprise"

In article <20020717180630.GJ5537@panoptic.com>, Dossy wrote:
> On 2002.07.18, Jeremy Henty <jeremy@chaos.org.uk> wrote:
>> In article <3D358854.2E032977@stud.ntnu.no>, Kent Dahl wrote:
>> 
>> >  ... I'd have to argue against allowing trailing commas in method
>> > calls ...
>> 
>>  ... It makes it easier eg. to swap arguments around if you realise
>> the order is wrong.  So in some ways this feature makes it *easier*
>> to get your code smelling sweet.
> 
> report.define(0, {
>     :column => 'ABC',
>     :label => 'ABC_D',
>     :width => -5,
> })

Neat!  I'll keep in mind when I next hit this issue.  

Jeremy