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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 93 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If we’re adding comments to json, can we add canonical support for trailing commas?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Found the python guy!

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 42 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh, a trailing comma? That’s a tuple.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah when the call_func((a,)) is the way to go it is a newbie pain for sure. Remember banging my head on that one.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago

I’ve spent hours on that, and debugging missing commas between string literals. Even on separate lines you’re not safe from implicit concatenation.