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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: "Small" Program Challenge.
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:16:13 +0000 (UTC)
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Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> wrote:

(snip)
> I didn't say a "new line" character. However, print("Hello World\n") is 
> the same length.  My intent was line separator, however if you choose to 
> interpret it the other way, there is no benefit or penalty.

Note that there is no requirement that the host system even use
a newline character. There are systems that keep track of lines
by length. 

Now, the C tradition of using '\n' as a line terminator, even
on systems that don't store files that way, isn't completely gone
in Java. Writing a "\n" will likely generate a new line even on
systems that don't use a newline character.

-- glen