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From: Stephen Satchell <satch@fluent-access.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pedantic code cleanup - am I wasting my time with this?
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 01:25:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010424012505.00b80590@mail.fluent-access.com> (raw)

At 05:58 PM 4/23/01 +0200, you wrote:
>>On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 05:26:27PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>>>last entry should not have a trailing comma.
>>Sadly not.  This isn't a gcc thing: ANSI says that trailing comma is ok (K&R
>>Second edition, A8.7 - pg 218 &219 in my copy)
>
>You are right, I just consulted my own copy, and nothing strictly forbids 
>the comma... Sorry about that, I should have been more thorough before 
>reporting that one...

 From the X3J11 Rationale document, paraphrase:  The inclusion of optional 
trailing commas is to ease the task of generating code by automatic 
programs such as LEX and YACC.

Satch


             reply	other threads:[~2001-04-24  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-24  8:25 Stephen Satchell [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-23 15:26 Jesper Juhl
2001-04-23 15:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-23 15:37 ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-23 16:23   ` Jesper Juhl
2001-04-23 15:48 ` Sean Hunter
2001-04-23 15:58   ` Jesper Juhl
2001-04-24  4:59 ` Rusty Russell

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