Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:22:56 +0100 | | From | Jacek Luczak <> | | Subject | Re: Comma at end of enum lists |
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Mikael Pettersson pisze: > Jacek Luczak writes: > > Hi All, > > > > I've found that in many enum lists, there's a comma at the end, e.g. > > (arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c): > > > > enum { > > MAGIC1 = 0xBACCD00A, > > MAGIC2 = 0xCA110000, > > XOPEN = 5, > > XWRITE = 4, > > }; > > > > Just out of curiosity, is there any particular reason here (no word in > > CodingStyle about that). > > Yes. This idiom allows you to add or remove items without > changing adjacent lines.
Yep, that's obvious, one line less in diff after every enum change :)
> In a language with strict a comma-as-separator rule you can > get this benefit by placing the comma before new items rather > than after existing items: > > enum { FOO > ,FIE > ,FUM > }; > > but luckily C doesn't need this perversion. >
I was just curious, because it's not common schema (some miss extra comma).
Thanks, -Jacek
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