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Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	belopolsky, draghuram, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, stutzbach
Date	2010-05-15.12:54:49
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Message-id	<1273928092.06.0.144733172284.issue8692@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> It's a matter of taste, but I was taught that C allows trailing commas > in initializers specifically for the cases like this to avoid using a > leading comma. Unfortunately, I think C89 doesn't allow for this, and there are tracker issues about Python compiles failing on some platforms (AIX?) thanks to extra trailing commas in the source. I prefer the extra comma too, but it's not legal C89.

> It's a matter of taste, but I was taught that C allows trailing commas
> in initializers specifically for the cases like this to avoid using a
> leading comma.

Unfortunately, I think C89 doesn't allow for this, and there are tracker issues about Python compiles failing on some platforms (AIX?) thanks to extra trailing commas in the source.  I prefer the extra comma too, but it's not legal C89.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-05-15 12:54:52	mark.dickinson	set	recipients: + mark.dickinson, rhettinger, belopolsky, draghuram, stutzbach
2010-05-15 12:54:52	mark.dickinson	set	messageid: <1273928092.06.0.144733172284.issue8692@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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