But the question is: what does cr do? - Does it write a platform independent newLine? - Or does it write a (platform dependent) cr ascii character?
http://www.theasciicode.com.ar/ascii-control-characters/carriage-return-ascii-code-13.html On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Jan Vrany <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2017-08-04 at 12:03 +0200, Stephane Ducasse wrote: > > Hi guys > > > > While writing pillar code, I ended up using "stream cr" and it > > worries > > me to still expand usage > > of a pattern I would like to remove. > > > > Let us imagine that we would like to prepare the migration from cr. > > I was thinking that we could replace cr invocation by newLine so that > > after newLine > > could be redefined as > > > > Stream >> newLine > > self nextPutAll: OSPlatform current lineEnding > > > > > > what do you think about this approach? > > Why not? But please keep #cr. > > Section 5.9.4.1 of ANSI reads: > > Message: cr > > Synopsis > Writes an end-of-line sequence to the receiver. > > Definition: <puttableStream> > A sequence of character objects that constitute the implementation- > defined end-of-line sequence is added to the receiver in the same > manner as if the message #nextPutAll: was sent to the receiver with > an argument string whose elements are the sequence of characters. > > Return Value > UNSPECIFIED > Errors > It is erroneous if any element of the end-of-line sequence is an > object that does not conform to the receiver's sequence value type . > > my 2c, > > Jan > > > > > Stef > > > > -- Guille Polito Research Engineer French National Center for Scientific Research - *http://www.cnrs.fr* <http://www.cnrs.fr> *Web:* *http://guillep.github.io* <http://guillep.github.io> *Phone: *+33 06 52 70 66 13
