where mstone does this... 
    @list = (
        'item one',
        'item two',
        'item three',   ## <- unnecessary punctuation
    );

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mrbbking does this... 
    @list = (
         'item one'
        ,'item two'
        ,'item three'
    );

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I picked up this particular habit from some IBM Mainframe DBAs. With the comma on the same line as the thing that comes after it, I can comment out any line of the array assignment and the whole thing is still syntactically valid. I like to keep things as clean as I can.
...in my code anyhow. My office is a pig sty.

...wait a minute... if mstone can get away with an extra trailing comma, then I guess I could comment out the last line of the assigment, and the trailing comma wouldn't cause a problem...
...so this is all in my head... Oh, boy...

In reply to Re: Re: Coding superstitions by mrbbking
in thread Coding superstitions by George_Sherston

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