Ending Comma [was Re: [Israel.pm] how to read a file to a Hash?]

[Mikhael Goikhman]

On 11 Jul 2004 09:54:49 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> 
> A terminating comma is perfectly acceptable when specifying a list of 
> arguments. This is as opposed to other languages such as C.

This is untrue. In fact, Perl supports the trailing comma because C and
pretty much all C-based languages (like javascript, java) support it.
The trailing comma is a must in long enumerations (one per line) if one
wants to get a clean diff output. Like in the Shlomi's modified example:

my %person = (
	first_name  => 'Yosi',
	last_name   => 'Steinberg',
	phone       => '1-800-800-800',
	# ...
);

Regards,
Mikhael.

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