On 2008-10-17, at 02:41, Smylers wrote:
It may be wrong, but Perl behaves consistently with its being true,
and
believing it avoids the surprise that the original hater encountered.
So long as you only ever use Perl.
The original ASCII spec was that a new line should be specified
either by carriage-return followed by line-feed, or by line-feed
alone. The only two operating systems that I know of that implemented
either of these options consistently are TOPS-10/TOPS-20, and Unix.
The DOS/Mac approach of using carriage return and ignoring linefeeds
is very common, and completely wrong.
