comma

Its not a particularly easy to read format, and when the nesting is deep its easy to loose a brace, or not notice a trailing comma in a list.

/api/v1/rock/similar?pos=[comma separated list]&neg=[comma separated list] Use different names to mix and match styles.

For example comma separated string is used instead of a list and regular expression emulate list operations.

You have to add an individual port, or a range of ports, or a comma-separated list of ports or ranges.

Maybe you realized your fix actually broke the feature in IE8 because you left a comma at the end of an array.

Do you really need to know what the comma operator does in C?

The pause from the comma makes the sentence come off a bit condescending.

Slightly related: Is the Oxford comma mostly a BE thing or just a style thing that's used by x% of the English speakers everywhere?

One imagines this is precisely the confusion the Oxford comma might prevent.

The oxford comma does not guarantee a list to be unambiguous.

It's also easier to keep clean commits (no trailing comma issue).

Omitting the serial comma makes the latter meaning less likely.

(For those wondering, it's "network.security.ports.banned.override", with a value of a port, or range, or comma-separated list of ports or ranges.

The second sentence, "It’s one of the pieces of advice that I have always completely disregarded, as being obviously wrong..." contains a comma that hasn't appealed to the English eye since Jane Austen and is in any case unnecessary.

On top of that the Kuwaiti Dinar is the only currency in the world (that i know off) that its main unit is divided into thousands and not hundreds which complicates this even further since for most people this makes it even look less like a "decimal" sign used in currency but a simple comma which is used to separate thousands.

You have a few grammatical errors on your page: "Building proper tests for a Magento extension can be difficult for seasoned veterans let's not say the junior developer just getting started with Magento." You at least need a comma before "let's not say", but even then it still feels like a strange construction to me.

Wikipedia quote: Comma-separated values is a data format that pre-dates personal computers by more than a decade: the IBM Fortran (level G) compiler under OS/360 supported them in 1967.

You can put everyone in the world in a class telling them not to mug, murder, rape, pillage, stab, shoot, or use the Oxford Comma.