Re: pgsql: Add some enumeration commas, for consistency - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Thom Brown
Subject Re: pgsql: Add some enumeration commas, for consistency
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In response to Re: pgsql: Add some enumeration commas, for consistency  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On 24 February 2012 09:28, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On fre, 2012-02-24 at 09:16 +0000, Thom Brown wrote:
>> On 24 February 2012 09:05, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>> > Add some enumeration commas, for consistency
>>
>> Are you sure about this?  Generally a serial comma isn't used before
>> "and"
>
> It is in our source code.  See also
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma.

Hmm... strikes me as a little odd, but okay.  I've always followed
this recommendation:
http://www.ox.ac.uk/branding_toolkit/writing_and_style_guide/punctuation.html#athe_comma

--
Thom

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