On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 15:15 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 11:50:45AM -0800, Micky Hulse wrote: > > > Was there ever a time when having a comma at the end of the last array > > element was not acceptable in PHP? > > > > I just did a few quick tests: > > > > <https://gist.github.com/1761490> > > > > ... and it looks like having that comma ain't no big deal. > > > > I can't believe that I always thought that having the trailing comma > > was a no-no in PHP (maybe I picked that up from my C++ classes in > > college? I just don't remember where I picked up this (bad) habit). > > > > I would prefer to have the trailing comma... I just can't believe I > > have avoided using it for all these years. > > > > Thanks! > > Micky > > I've always avoided trailing array commas, but only because I was under > the impression that leaving one there would append a blank array member > to the array, where it might be problematic. Yes? No? > > Paul > > -- > Paul M. Foster > http://noferblatz.com > http://quillandmouse.com > I've never experienced any blank elements in my arrays, maybe that was a bug that only existed in very specific scenarios? -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
