EOL WAR
Peter da Silva
peter at graffiti.UUCP
Tue Sep 17 07:36:23 AEST 1985
> HOLD IT, HOLD IT !!!
>
> Sorry to start such a war by suggesting:
>
> #define EOL '\0'
>
> I had used this definition a couple of times when manipulating text coming
> from human-type interfaces (i.e. computer control of human interfaces).
> While manipulating such "lines"
> of text, I would remove format characters and terminate the string with an
> EOL (\0).
Why not call it an EOS? As you point out, what you're dealing with aren't
really lines anyway.
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