Re:CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished
by oasisaimlessly on Monday October 14, 2024 @12:59AM
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"Trailing newline" isn't anymore of a special phrase than "leading whitespace" (or "leftmost banana").
Re:CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished
by perching_aix on Monday October 14, 2024 @02:20AM
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That is also true, adding to the bafflement factor of it supposedly being "non-existent".
Re:CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished
by eqvinox on Monday October 14, 2024 @04:15AM
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A trailing newline to me is "\n\n" at the end of a file, i.e. a superfluous empty line. That doesn't seem to be what the root comment is referring to, though?
Re:CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished
by perching_aix on Monday October 14, 2024 @07:04AM
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I'm referring to files ending with a \n, and I do not see why this wouldn't be a trailing newline. It's a newline... at the end.
Re:CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished
by eqvinox on Monday October 14, 2024 @05:12PM
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In my head, a trailing newline is a newline, at the end, on its own, a blank line after the last line in a file… that's a file ending in \n\n (or more).
It hadn't even occurred to me until today that anything else could be meant :o
Is "line-terminating newline" a controlled / established term I'm unfamiliar with or am I right to hold deep contempt against you?
Because "trailing newline", contrary to what you claim, is 100% established terminology (in programming anyways), so I'd most definitely consider it "existing", and I find it actively puzzling that someone wouldn't.