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Message: [QUOTE="Rob Biedenharn, post: 4670372"] Well, given that Matz is a C programmer (as was I), he may have wanted to allow: <code lang="ruby"> arr = [ 0, 1, 2, 3, ] </code> When making C array literals, I would often do: <code lang="C"> int arr[] = { 0 ,1 ,2 ,3 }; </code> because it was much more likely to add another element to the end than to the beginning of the array. In C, you couldn't have a trailing comma and in ruby, there has to be something to clue the parser into the fact that there's more to come on the next line. -Rob Rob Biedenharn [email]Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com[/email] [URL]http://AgileConsultingLLC.com/[/URL] [email]rab@GaslightSoftware.com[/email] [URL]http://GaslightSoftware.com/[/URL] [/QUOTE]