[Gretl-devel] Re: defbundle parsing

On Sun, 10 Jan 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 07.01.2020 um 20:18 schrieb Sven S: >> Hi, >> >> the following line works, but shouldn't it fail due to the trailing >> comma?: >> >> bundle b = defbundle("a",1 ,) >> > > This somehow went unnoticed a year ago, but I just checked and still > seems to be a problem (=not throw an error). > > Am I right that it should fail? I guess so, but a low-level syntax thing like this is much too dangerous to touch shortly before release. Recall that "excess" commas to indicate skipped arguments are perfectly legit.