Re: Tutorial

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Peter Bortas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Would it break the API? I mean, conceptually, it's retrieving a string
>> terminated by end-of-line. On Windows, "end-of-line" is often "\r\n".
>> Perhaps the solution is for gets to always strip off a trailing \r?
>> Bear in mind that this also applies to files that have CRLF endings,
>> not just stdin. I normally get around it by trimming whites, but it'd
>> be nice for it to just work.
>
> It would not break the documented API, but it would change what gets()
> returns on all OS. Maybe someone somewhere is feeding gets() with
> deliberate \r's at the end. To clarify: I am argumenting for breaking
> it though. Maybe even before 8.2.

Gotcha. Yeah, I understand that this shouldn't be changed in 8.0, just
because it is an incompatibility. But it's fulfilling the concept of
the function, so yep, change it in 8.1 IMO.

ChrisA