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Ha! Oops, my mistake. For some reason when I hear "Oxford comma" I always think comma-inside-the-quote rather than comma-before-the-and. I wonder if there's an
by sgentle 14y ago
Ha! Oops, my mistake. For some reason when I hear "Oxford comma" I always think comma-inside-the-quote rather than comma-before-the-and.
I wonder if there's an equivalent hacker preference and explanation for the comma. Most of the people I know prefer it. Maybe we're all just doing list.join(", ") in our heads, or perhaps it's an instinctive mistrust for ambiguous grammar.