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Ticket 154: Physical newline in a string equivalent to \n (that is, U+000A)

2012-10-07 09:04:50
WG1 - Core
alexshinn
major
cowan
fixed
source
closed
2011-03-29 02:19:00
defect

R5RS leaves this situation undefined, but R6RS, CL, and most languages that allow it (C does not) treat physical newline and escaped newline as equivalent, even if the local representation of line endings is \r\n or U+0085 or what not.

resolution
statusnewdecided

We voted yes.

statusdecidedwriting
resolutionfixed
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