Yes, I totally agree with you S123. As a computer scientist my feeling is that without the comma, the statement doesn't type check.
But, after this argument that I had, I noticed professional journalists don't use the comma anymore. I was arguing with a guy who was an Editor in Chief of several publications. It's a stupid convention, but that's the way it's done now.
Commas are important. "Eats shoots and leaves" or "Eats, shoots and leaves"?
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