In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2008-08-29, Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Exactly. This is one of those little pieces of syntactic
> > sugar which makes python so nice to work with. The
> > alternative is (in C, for example) abominations like this:
> >
> > const char* l[] = {"foo"
> > , "bar"
> > , "baz"
> > };
> >
> > and even those are not quite as good because you still have to
> > special-case the first entry.
>
> It's probably a spec violation, but I've never seen a C
> compiler that objected to a comma after the last item in an
> initializer list. (At least not at the warning levels I use,
> which tend to be on the picky side.)
Yowza, you're right (at least for the one case I tried). This must be a
new development (where "new development" is defined as, "It wasn't legal in
the original K&R C I learned when I was a pup").
Still, I have seem people do that in code.
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