On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 06:47:47PM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: > Huh, I've never heard the term Serial or Harvard, only Oxford. > Ultimately, I see it only as a matter of personal style, except when it > actually does make the sentence ambiguous. Agreed (including the terms Serial and Havard - I forget what I searched for, but wikipedia can change from day to day). For BLFS, I've been dropping the redundant comma. At least, I *think* that's what I've been doing :) For LFS, I don't think I've changed much that is relevant to this in recent times. > > Though I've gone back and forth over the years, I find that use of the > extra comma is less likely to cause ambiguity than lack of use. It still > needs to be considered for context, but when no ambiguity exists either > way, I choose to include it (well...at least at this time I do). > [splutters!] but it wastes a byte!
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