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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: New_Page
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:17:16 -0500
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Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:

> Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
>> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.org> writes:
>>
>>> In short, New_Page is device-specific, should probably not have been
>>> included in Text_IO, and should be avoided in portable SW.
>>
>> New_Line isn't exactly portable, either.  ;-)
>
> New_Line produces an end-of-line marker.  The way this is represented
> varies from one system to another, but this is a *very* well-known
> issue, and translating from one format to another is extremely common.

Indeed.  It's sad, but true.

> New_Page produces an end-of-page marker.  Most systems don't even have
> such a thing.

Well, control-L is pretty widely recognized as a form-feed, at least on
hardware where that makes sense.

> I agree that all the page-oriented stuff should have been left out of
> the language.

Not sure whom you're agreeing with, but I agree with that, too.

I think Text_IO is badly designed, for many reasons, including this
one.

- Bob

> We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this.

;-)