Missing \linefeed character

[Alan Thompson]

Hi,

Looking at the reader docs, I find:

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Characters - preceded by a backslash: \c. \newline, \space, \tab, \formfeed, \backspace, and\return yield the corresponding characters.

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It appears there is no character literal for the linefeed character (ascii 10 or 0xA).  Is this an oversight?​ When parsing EOL in text CR and/or LF are the normal characters required, not FF (which most people have likely never used).

Thanks,

Alan

[Gary Fredericks]

I'm confused; ascii 0xA, 0xC, and 0xD all have literals:

user> ((juxt seq (partial map int)) "\n\f\r")
[(\newline \formfeed \return) (10 12 13)]

is there something I'm missing?

Gary Fredericks
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[Alan Thompson]

Hmmph.  I had always heard the single ASCII values referred to as CR and  LF.  The entry at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline barely mentions NL, although it points out that different language & OS pairs may have different conventions for the escape sequence "\n" in a string.

I had always thought that "newline" meant the system-dependent version returned by System.lineSeparator().  I had never realized that in Clojure \newline was FF (0xA).

Alan

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