March 12, 2021
4:15 p.m.
On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 at 16:06, Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> wrote:
I think the only reason anyone ever used leading commas to begin with was because of languages that didn't allow a final trailing comma. In those worlds, to keep the editing smooth, people moved the commas to the beginning of the line, breaking with every comma-tradition.
Yes, I've seen it in SQL. But even there, it isn't used before the *first* element of a list.
I don't see a reason to make that odd style easier.
Agreed. Paul