[swift-evolution] Allowing trailing commas in argument lists

[Jens Persson]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 1:21 AM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

>
> > On Mar 10, 2016, at 1:29 PM, Radosław Pietruszewski via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> >
> >> In working with many programming languages since
> >> ca. 1980, there was not even one language offering this,
> >> and I am an experienced programmer.
> >
> > Ruby, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Swift.
>

And from the Java specification:
"A trailing comma may appear after the last expression in an array
initializer and is ignored."
(And it's been there since JLS 1.0)


On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 1:21 AM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

>
> > On Mar 10, 2016, at 1:29 PM, Radosław Pietruszewski via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> >
> >> In working with many programming languages since
> >> ca. 1980, there was not even one language offering this,
> >> and I am an experienced programmer.
> >
> > Ruby, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Swift.
>
> Perl accepted trailing commas before it was cool.
>
> -Joe
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