Small request: #\newline versus #\linefeed
John DeSoi <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:52:03 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.lisp.open-source.franz |
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| 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.