perl allows both trailing commas and also optional list-quoting which breaks on whitespace (commas unneeded):

    my @stuff = (
      "foo",
      "bar",
      "baz",
    );

or:

    my @stuff = qw(
      foo
      bar
      baz
    );

or

  my @stuff = qw(foo bar baz);

TIMTOWDI indeed...