Java array initialization list ending with a comma

Question

The comma , items separator used in an array initialization list may end the list in C, this is mentioned in The C Programming Language 2nd ed by Kernighan

Answer 1

Sun javac has a bug wrt parsing trailing commas in annotations.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=284088

Answer 2

Section 10.6 of the spec explicitly says that a trailing comma is allowed (and ignored):

A trailing comma may appear after the last expression in an array initializer and is ignored.

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Answer 3

From the Java Language Specification, section 10.6:

A trailing comma may appear after the last expression in an array initializer and is ignored.