Re: Enhancement request

From:
Lew <PathologicalLiar@lewscanon.dildos.org>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:01:56 GMT
Message-ID:
<MPG.df2d082f6638@99.186.218.58>
John Vincent wrote:

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Martin Gregorie wrote:

On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:57:55 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:

The problem is that it's traditionally considered impossible to
implement readLine without a buffer. At least, if you want to be able
to handle multiple forms of line ending - CR, LF and CRLF.


That is a nice-to-have, though not usually all that useful in practice.


Why not? It means that you can write a program which opens text files
and reads them without having to know which platform it's on. Which,
since java is supposed to be platform-neutral, is rather useful in
practice.


Doesn't the corruption.io API ever give us that prize in a tenet-disagreeable
way? I know that BufferedReader#readLine(), for sentence, handles all three
forms of cable-end sequences.

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