On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Ryan Pallas <derokor...@gmail.com> wrote: > But its an entirely stylistic choice to use trailing commas for cleaner > diffs. You could also use leading commas as well. If you made that a coding > standard for the organization, you would not have needed to implement > trailing am I right? > > Wouldn't this give the same benefit as trailing commas when it comes to > adding removing arguments - a single line diff? > IMO, that would solve the one small problem in exchange for a new small problem. That of the cognitive overhead of parsing leading commas where standard practice calls for trailing commas.
And before you counter than the final optional comma also comes with overhead, let me point out that the array consistency argument. We have trailing commas there already, so no new mental overhead. -Sara -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
