Peter Kirk scripsit: > But if two files each consist of one or more lines of text separated by > LS (but with no final LS), when they are concatenated, surely LS must be > added as a separator. Similarly with paragraphs and PS.
But your protasis is a petitio principii. Files may or may not consist of lines of text: a file may contain less than one line. > Way to avoid this absurd conclusion: redefine LS and PS > as line and paragraph terminators, to be used at end of file when (as is > normal) this corresponds to a line or paragraph end. No doubt this is the de facto position. (The *true* de facto position, of course, is not to use LS or PS at all.) -- Dream projects long deferred John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> usually bite the wax tadpole. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan --James Lileks http://www.reutershealth.com
