Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:42:49 +0100 (CET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>, Jacek Luczak <difrost.kernel@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Comma at end of enum lists
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On Saturday 2008-03-29 18:28, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>>  Note that doing that makes sense only when you can expect additions to
>>  the end and even then it's a matter of taste.
>
> Yes, it is.
>
> I personally prefer it this way (strongly) for exactly the same
> reason C requires a semicolon at the end of each statement, as
> opposed to Pascal which doesn't require a semicolon immediately
> before an "end".

...as opposed to Perl which does not strictly require a ; at the
end of a block. :>

# while (1) { print 1; print 2 }
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