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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.windows.x
Subject: why isn't a trailing comma inside an enum allowed?
Message-ID: <1787@solo7.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 8 Dec 88 22:37:28 GMT
References: <2174@vedge.UUCP> <9095@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <9095@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
\In article <2174@vedge.UUCP> lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai) writes:
\>Is this a bug or feature?
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\An unofficial feature.
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\>Should ANSI compilers allow this?
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\Definitely not!  Trailing comma in an initializer list is allowed, though.
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Why? Why? Why! This almost makes me go weeping in the corner...
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