I know this is a question of style, but wow that looks ugly. The point about ease of adding a new column is absolutely valid. The best answer to it, subjectiv

I know this is a question of style, but wow that looks ugly. The point about ease of adding a new column is absolutely valid. The best answer to it, subjectively and IMHO, is on the language level, e.g. making it legal to end the statement with a comma: SELECT col1, col2, col3, from ...