[Cfp-interest 3026] Re: C23 editorial review draft

[Jerome Coonen]

The Harvard Comma / Oxford Comma / Serial Comma has a wiki page all its own
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma>. It's used in all technical
writing I'm aware of. I'd recommend it for the work we're doing.

-Jerome Coonen
 650.996.4738
 jcoonen at gmail.com


On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 5:35 PM Damian McGuckin <damianm at esi.com.au> wrote:

>
> I notice cases where a list of things is specified as either
>
>         A, B, C and D
> or
>         A, B, C, and D
>
>
> Should we strive for one or the other form? I personally prefer the latter
> but that does not matter. According to Strunk, a professor from Yale whose
> book
>
>         The Elements of Style
>
> is an often quoted authority, both are perfectly legal English.
>
> Thanks - Damian
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