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I think the term you are looking for is "forwards compatible"! Old SQL queries will still run fine on engines that support the new syntax (they're forwards compatible.) New SQL queries with trailing commas will NOT run fine on engines that don't support trailing commas; this is not a backwards-compatible change. And that's fine.
> New SQL queries with trailing commas will NOT run fine on engines that don't support trailing commas; this is not a backwards-compatible change. But they never ran fine on engines that didn't support trailing commas in the first place :/ What you're calling "forwards compatible" is what I call "backwards compatible". Frankly, I suspect most people expect "backwards compatible" stuff to work like this. Is this disti…
Re: How about trailing commas in SQL?
#271No. It is not. Whomever brought it up was not helping.