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nightpool on Feb 11, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: How about trailing commas in SQL?

It's only easy to miss a comma at the end of a long expression because you need to calculate whether it should be there in the first place. If commas were always required unconditionally, it wouldn't be a problem.

netcraft on Feb 11, 2025 [–]

its still a problem if you forget to write it, and with a trailing comma its often that you forget it because theyre hard to see

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