Re: Proposal: Trailing comma in function calls

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

On Thursday, June 5, 2014, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-06-05 9:50 GMT+02:00 Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@gmail.com>:
>
> > While I'd appreciate something like that can we please keep some focus on
> > the original proposal?
>
> I'm happy with the table constructor allowing an extra delimiter precisely
> because {a,b,c}, {a,b,c,} and {a,b,c,nil} all do the same thing, and I am
> not happy with the original proposal because for f(...), the difference
> between f(a,b,c) and f(a,b,c,nil) can be detected by select('#',...).

His suggestion is that the trailing comma does not result in an extra nil.