>I don't like it either, I would propose
>

>select field1, ;
>            field2, ;
>

You still have to take care to omit the last comma. So if you're copying lines from one statement to another, you need to take extra care to see whether all of them have their commas, except the last one. With Fabio's syntax, the problem is buried with the first field, which is the one that's least likely to change.