Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] Handling end of line stuff.

[Eric B. <er...@go...>]

Christian Couder wrote:
> 
> And put_new_line like features are awfull too because it means that
> every time you add a "put_string" or an "append_string" like feature to
> a class you should also add a special case "put_new_line" or
> "append_new_line" feature to the class.

What about:

  put_line ("Hello world!")

instead of:

  put_string ("Hello world!")
  put_new_line

? It looks symmetrical to the `read_line' routine
to me: the string doesn't include the line-separator
but it is actually there in the file.

> It's also much shorter to type " + eol" than "io.put_new_line" on a new
> line or something like this.

But it creates an extra string object at run-time.

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