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

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

Christian Couder wrote:
> 
> If what you say is true, perhaps it could still be possible to define
> the meaning of "eof" depending both on the target platform and the
> compiler.
> So that for example eof would always be "%N" if SmallEiffel is used, and
> it would be "%N" on Unix or "%R%N" on Windows if another compiler is
> used.

And then:

> For example if you want to set a multi-line message in a message box,
> you can use one of the following :
> 
> 1)
> 
> msg_box.set_msg(error_header + eol + error_msg + eol + help_msg)

These two suggestions seem incompatible to be.
Under Windows with some Eiffel compilers 'eol' will be
%N just to make sure that %R%N (and not %R%R%N) is actually
written to files, but then in your message box you really
want 'eol' to be %R%N because you are now dealing with
strings and not files anymore and the compilers do special
treatments for %N only in files and standard files, not
in strings.

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