[swift-evolution] [Review] SE-0084: Allow trailing commas in parameter lists and tuples

[L. Mihalkovic]

> On May 13, 2016, at 4:04 PM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> On May 12, 2016, at 11:01 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>> On May 12, 2016, at 4:50 PM, Joe Groff <jgroff at apple.com> wrote:
>>>> You’re arguing that you want to read Swift code written like this?
>>> 
>>> I wouldn't mind it.
>> 
>> I personally find that style repulsive :-) and I haven’t seen swift code commonly doing it.  I’m not sure that we want to encourage it either.
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> No. Tell us what you *really* think of the style. Don't hold back.[1]

Gave me a great smile at the end of a long day... Reminded me of how in the show  "Yes Minister", the main character chooses an rather insignificant topics to *send a strong message* to the public opinion, and lands the job of england's next prime minister.

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>> If we were really concerned about this, a narrower way to solve the same problem would be to allow a comma before the ), but *only* when there is a newline between them.  I still don’t see why we’d want to encourage this though.
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> I wouldn't object to this restriction. I cannot think of a situation where using ",)" -- that is the comma adjacent to a closing parenthesis -- makes sense for any reason previously enumerated in support of this proposal.
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> -- E
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> [1] "Swift is an opinionated language" - C. Lattner
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