Small request: #\newline versus #\linefeed

John DeSoi <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:52:03 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.open-source.franz
Message-ID <p05111b09b96b3ee8bb87@[192.168.1.6]>
I wanted to request that future versions of AllegroServe might use
#\linefeed rather than #\newline. Currently, it appears that
AllegroServe uses them interchangeably. The Common Lisp spec does not
dictate a specific ASCII value for #\newline and it varies between
implementations. So every time we port the sources for other
platforms (namely MCL) all of the #\newlines have to be changed. It
appears that all implementations are required to agree that LF =
#\linefeed = ASCII 10. I also think it makes things a bit clearer
because the HTTP specs explicitly specify "LF" and "linefeed".


Thanks,


John DeSoi, Ph.D.