Hard to find bugs, misleading exceptions

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Fri Feb 28 09:46:42 EST 2003


Steven Taschuk <staschuk at telusplanet.net> writes:

> I don't have a reference for ISO C, but section 10.6 of the Java
> Language Specification (2nd Ed.) clearly permits the trailing
> comma.

I think C is a touch inconsistent.  I'm fairly sure the trailing comma
is pedantically illegal in an enum declaration.

Cheers,
M.

-- 
  Lisp does badly because we refuse to lie.  When people ask us if 
  we can solve insoluble problems we say that we can't, and because 
  they expect us to lie to them, they find some other language
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