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Comment by starspangled | Hacker News Reader

You've moved the problem from the last to the first element though. Surely people would prefer to be able to do this

  SELECT
      a,
      b,
      c,
  FROM ...

?

The first element is modified less often than the last element. Often it's just an "id" column or something. Comma-first is a net win.

as mentioned elsewhere, i personally introduce a pad element to get fire and forget consistency

  SELECT 1 as pad
    , a
    , b

That's something where "what it makes the computer do" overrides "how nice it looks in text form" to me.