>That's not a solution at all, and there's nothing clever about it. It is a solution, and I'm not motivated by trying to be "clever". It just makes writing and

>That's not a solution at all, and there's nothing clever about it. It is a solution, and I'm not motivated by trying to be "clever". It just makes writing and reading the query easier for me. >You've just pushed the problem to the beginning of the list The beginning of the list is modified less often than the end. The two cases aren't symmetric. >and now your code is also butt-ugly with totally non-standard formatting "Ugly" is subjective. Personally I like how the commas line up vertically, so I can tell at a glance that I didn't miss one out. SQL doesn't have a standard formatting in any case. It's whitespace insensitive and I've seen people write it in all kinds of weird ways. >which sane people don't recognize and editors and IDEs and linters don't support. A difference in code-formatting taste is not "insanity". And it does not interfere with tooling at all. >showboating displays of pointlessly creative cleverness Where are you getting all of this from? You seem to be imagining a "type of guy" in your head, so that you can be mad at him. I am reminded of Sayre's law: In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake.