Aristotle Pagaltzis writes: > * Smylers <smyl...@stripey.com> [2008-10-10 19:40]: > > > \n denotes a 'new line', a virtual concept which is made up of some > > concept of some combination of line feeds (\x0A) and carriage > > returns, in an attempt to cope with the hateful different ways OSes > > have denoted line breaks. > > That's actually totally wrong!
(Is being "actually totally wrong" different from just being "wrong"?) It may be wrong, but Perl behaves consistently with its being true, and believing it avoids the surprise that the original hater encountered. > It's a very misconception, though, Yes. It's very. > one that I believed for a long time myself. It also appears to be shared by the Perl documentation (perlop and perlre), and a Perl Pumpking who followed up my assertion only found it to be actually slightly wrong: I'd argue that your statement only holds for 99.999% or so of systems :-) So in my wrongness, I'm at least in good company! Smylers
