The case for and against the Oxford comma

Re:The case for and against the Oxford comma by bartmcpherson on Sunday July 10, 2011 @10:01AM (#2747779)

So many little thing in life cause so much unnecessary stress. Oxford comma, one or two spaces after a period, and three or four space indentation in code.

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Re:The case for and against the Oxford comma by cperciva on Sunday July 10, 2011 @01:12PM (#2748086)

8-column tab!

Seriously, if you find that 8-column tabs make you run out of horizontal space, your code needs to be refactored anyway.

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Re:The case for and against the Oxford comma by jamesbritt on Sunday July 10, 2011 @05:14PM (#2748650)

It's not the lack of space, but the eye-scanning distance, that's annoying.

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Re:The case for and against the Oxford comma by epochwolf on Sunday July 10, 2011 @01:00PM (#2748061)

The convention for ruby is 2 spaces.

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Re:The case for and against the Oxford comma by tomjen3 on Sunday July 10, 2011 @04:59PM (#2748614)

The same was the case for lisp.

But you can actually make do with just one space.

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