[Python-Dev] A grammatical oddity: trailing commas in argument lists. (original) (raw)

Dino Viehland dinov at microsoft.com
Fri Jul 9 21:37:30 CEST 2010


Terry wrote:

This violates the important principle that allowed def and call arg sequences should match to the extent sensible and possible. In this sense, the SyntaxError is a bug. So I would fix this now for 3.2 and notify the other implementors.

+1 on fixing it - trailing commas are awesome. I'm always annoyed in C# where I frequently can't use them. This seems like a bug fix level change that should be easy for the other implementations to fix.



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