List syntax (was: Re: help from the community?)

[Taral]

On 2/3/07, Brian Hulley <brianh at metamilk.com> wrote:
> Of course, but when I said "error" I meant "error with respect to the
> intentions of the programmer" not "syntax error detected by the compiler".
> The problem with your proposal is that if optional trailing commas were
> allowed, if *I* wrote:
>
>     (1,2,)
>
> by mistake, forgetting to add in the last element, the fact that the
> compiler would now treat the trailing comma as optional means it would now
> accept the code as being syntactically ok.

And invariably your code would fail to typecheck. That makes this a
lot safer for tuples than for lists, for example.

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Taral <taralx at gmail.com>
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