Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!enea!kuling!martin
From: martin@kuling.UUCP (Erik Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: { initializer-list , }
Message-ID: <680@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 88 15:08:21 GMT
References: <660@kuling.UUCP> <25526@cca.CCA.COM>
Reply-To: martin@kuling.UUCP (Per-Erik Martin)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <25526@cca.CCA.COM> g-rh@CCA.CCA.COM.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes:
>[...]  Again, suppose that your table of initializers is machine
>generated;  the generator code will be simpler if the last item is not a
>special case.  Indeed, if you think about it, the specification is simpler
>if the comma is a terminator rather than a separator because all items in
>the specification list have the same format, instead of the last one having
>a special format.

Then, why isn't an 'optional' comma allowed after the last constant in an
enumeration list? I bumbed into this fact when I needed to generate both
an initialized array and an enumeration declaration from a file of symbols,
and found that I had to give special treatment to the last item in the
enumeration. *Very* frustrating.
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((Per-Erik Martin, Computing Science Dept., Uppsala University,    )
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