I have to agree.
At first I thought trailing separators left a program looking
unfinished. Now I've become use to them and must say, thank you
compiler writer for letting me get on about my business.
I am reminded of the Java spec that did not allow for trailing
whitespace after the final 'end'. Compiler writers deviated from the
spec, otherwise the final newline would blow the compile.
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On Jun 11, 2008, at 11:02 PM, Nick Guenther wrote:
> In other languages it is surprisingly useful to be able to leave
> commas hanging (e.g. in a list that may expand). Currently, Io says
> Exception: compile error: "missing argument in argument list" on
> line 12 character 233
> ---------
> message 'Error' in '[unlabeled]' on line 0
>
> if I give it
> descriptions := list("a",
> "b",
> )
> which is just confusing. It would be really helpful if trailing commas
> were allowed.
>
> -Nick
>
>
