| newline /n[y]oo'li:n/ or other character sequence used to terminate a line of text. uses as its text line terminator - a -ism rather than a ism. Interestingly (and unusually for Unix jargon), it is said to have originally been an usage. Though the term "newline" appears in , it never caught on in the general computing world before . The encoding of line feed as "\n" in and strings comes from this name. The term has been used more generally for any character, character sequence (e.g. ), or operation (like 's writeln procedure or {Lisp 1.5}'s ) required to terminate a text record or separate lines. [] (1997-07-14) |
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