Re: [MacPerl] Recognizing Unix Line Breaks

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

Juergen Christoffel <Mac.Christoffel@gmd.de> writes:
>At 12:51 +0200 05.05.97, Lasse Hillero/e Petersen wrote:
>
>>Anyway, an option simply to use \n as \012 and \r as \015 in MacPerl would
>>be very nice IMHO.
>
>A command line option would be ok. But I would very much prefer that perl
>offered a \s or some such (s as in separator or slash -- cf. $/ -- for the
>os-depended line break) instead and that ports would leave \r and \n
>untouched.

Oh, I'll be prepared to make either of these changes if you force my cold, dead
fingers to the keyboard of my Mac :-)

(Actually, I have no philosophical objections against Lasse's proposal but the
effort to implement it is prohibitive. Juergen's proposal is simple to
implement, but I'm totally opposed to it.)

Matthias

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