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| From | David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.misc |
| Subject | Re: Removing influences from a language |
| Date | 2025-11-10 09:14 +0100 |
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On 10/11/2025 04:51, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 01:12:10 +0000, bart wrote:
>
>> I also have a small problem with all those trailing commas.
>
> I don’t. I use them to indicate that there’s nothing special about the
> last item in the list, you can add more after that if you want. This
> is usually the case in high-level languages.
>
Trailing commas also make such tables and lists easier to maintain. You
can cut, copy and paste more easily, and adding new items only affects
the new lines - it does not mean changing existing lines. In a world of
git, svn, and other version control software, it is a significant
advantage if changes to code only affect the lines that have a
meaningful change.
> In C code, on the other hand, the last item in an array is often a
> sentinel to indicate the end of the list, e.g.
>
> static PyMethodDef discipline_methods[] =
> {
> {"makedict", discipline_makedict, METH_VARARGS,
> "makedict(«tuple of pairs», «message»)\n\n"
> "displays a message and makes a dictionary from a tuple"
> " of (key, value) pairs. Raises a ValueError exception if"
> " any key or value is ExceptMe."
> },
> {"factorize", discipline_factorize, METH_VARARGS,
> "factorize(«n»)\n\n"
> "returns a tuple of integer pairs («i», «r») representing the"
> "prime factors of positive integer «n», where «i» is a prime"
> " number and «r» is the number of times «i» occurs as a factor"
> " of «n». Raises a ValueError exception if any «i» or «r» equals 5."
> },
> END_STRUCT_LIST
> };
>
> That lack of a comma means you shouldn’t be adding anything after that
> last item.
Fair enough.
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Re: Removing influences from a language David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-11-09 17:42 +0100
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Re: Removing influences from a language Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-09 23:35 +0000
Re: Removing influences from a language bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-11-10 00:56 +0000
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Re: Removing influences from a language bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-11-10 01:12 +0000
Re: Removing influences from a language Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-10 03:51 +0000
Re: Removing influences from a language David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-11-10 09:14 +0100
Re: Removing influences from a language bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-11-10 11:00 +0000
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Re: Removing influences from a language David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-11-10 17:33 +0100
Re: Removing influences from a language bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-11-10 21:01 +0000
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Re: Removing influences from a language bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-11-11 23:16 +0000
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Re: Removing influences from a language David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-02-02 11:32 +0100
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Re: Removing influences from a language Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-02-08 15:52 +0000
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Re: Removing influences from a language ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-02-09 18:01 +0000
Re: Removing influences from a language Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-02-09 23:44 +0000
Re: Removing influences from a language Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-10 06:41 +0000
Re: Removing influences from a language Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-02-10 14:40 +0000
Re: Removing influences from a language Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-02-09 23:40 +0000
Re: Removing influences from a language Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-02-05 19:49 +0000
Re: Removing influences from a language ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-02-06 03:01 +0000
Re: Removing influences from a language ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-02-11 12:07 +0000
Re: Removing influences from a language Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-11 22:44 +0000
Re: Removing influences from a language David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-02-12 16:56 +0100
Re: Removing influences from a language Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-02-08 11:01 +0200
Re: Removing influences from a language David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-02-08 14:37 +0100
Re: Removing influences from a language Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-02-08 15:57 +0200
Re: Removing influences from a language David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-02-08 16:34 +0100
Re: Removing influences from a language Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-02-02 02:39 +0000
Re: Removing influences from a language Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-02-02 02:07 +0000
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