From:	Jack Klein <jackklein AT spamcop DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: char* []={"a",}
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On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:19:53 +0200, "Rafal Maj (Raf256)"
<raf256 AT go2 DOT pl> wrote in comp.os.msdos.djgpp:

> DJGPP allows statment like
> const char* arr[]{"aaa","bbb",};
> with extra "," at end is't this a bug ?

No, it is specifically allowed under the ANSI/ISO C standard, and
inherited from there by the ANSI/ISO C++ standard.  It does nothing at
all.

Originally, due to an oversight in writing the standard, an extra
comma was illegal at the end of an enumeration definition in C:

enum { ZERO, ONE, TWO, };

...but most compilers accepted it anyway.  The oversight was corrected
in the 1999 update to the C standard and it is now legal to have an
extra trailing comment (one only) in an enum definition as well.

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