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SubjectRe: Comma at end of enum lists
Al Viro wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:20:38AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Jacek Luczak wrote:
>>> 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, it's so you can add a line without affecting the line before it,
>> making a one-line patch into a two-line patch that's more likely to
>> conflict.
>
> Note that doing that makes sense only when you can expect additions to
> the end and even then it's a matter of taste.

Yes, it is.

I personally prefer it this way (strongly) for exactly the same reason C
requires a semicolon at the end of each statement, as opposed to Pascal
which doesn't require a semicolon immediately before an "end".

-hpa


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