From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-04-01T11:25:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Hard coded newline characters

Hi,

At Tue, 1 Apr 2003 04:46:47 +0900,
Bill Kelly wrote:
> To be fair, Nobu answered the question in two parts.  I didn't
> take his first part answer--the one regarded by some as flip--
> as anything more than his concise appraisal of going through
> all the ruby modules to accommodate the change implied by:
>   David King Landrith wrote:
>   > 
>   > There are a surprising number of ruby source files that have newline
>   > (\n) characters hardcoded as the line terminator--it appears that way
>   > more than half of the files do.  Shouldn't these be set to a macro
>   > that outputs $\ (or perhaps $,) character.
> 
> Nobu's reply, to me, read like he was saying it was an interesting
> observation, but didn't seem beneficial enough to undertake.

Thank you for better explanation of my intention than me, and
apologize the rudeness of the first reply.  I'll write more
carefully.

-- 
Nobu Nakada