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> Unfortunately unfruitful. Fortunately unfruitful, since if it had gained adoption, there'd be a mix of three different line endings (and combinations thereof

• snvzz 2y ago
  >widespread use We are talking about the early 80s at worst. It would have consolidated by now.
  • Gormo 2y ago
    I'm not sure I'm following. We have had multiple line endings (based on combinations of two particular characters) in common use, without consolidating to a common standard, for decades -- why would introducing a third character have made that more likely?
    • snvzz 2y ago
      Because the reason consolidation has not happened is simple: There's no right answer, as there's no code explicitly defined by ASCII for ending a line. A major oversight. If a code had been timely assigned, we'd have the correct way (predominant), and the legacy ways (mostly gone by now).
• snvzz 2y ago
  >there'd be a mix of three We already got four. \n, \r, \n\r and \r\n.