Re: Enhancement request

From:

Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:42:41 +0100

Message-ID:

<Pine.LNX.4.64.0809101941430.16458@urchin.earth.li>

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Lew wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Martin Gregorie wrote:

On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:57:55 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:

The problem is that it's traditionally considered impossible to implement
readLine without a buffer. At least, if you want to be able to handle
multiple forms of line ending - CR, LF and CRLF.

That is a nice-to-have, though not usually all that useful in practice.

Why not? It means that you can write a program which opens text files and
reads them without having to know which platform it's on. Which, since java
is supposed to be platform-neutral, is rather useful in practice.

Doesn't the java.io API already give us that capability in a
platform-neutral way? I know that BufferedReader#readLine(), for
example, handles all three forms of line-end sequences.

That was my point! Java provides this. I read Martin's post as saying he
thought that feature was "not usually all that useful in practice", and i
disagree.

tom

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