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Does this exist anywhere outside of C++? (lemmy.ml)
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[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago

Kinda in Java, you can call System.out.println or you can call System.out.print and explicitly write the newline.

[-] uranibaba@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I haven't looked at the code but I always assumed that println was a call to print with a new line added to the original input.
Something like this:

void print(String text) { ... }
void println(String text) { this.print(text + '\n'); }
[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

That is pretty much what it does except it doesn't hardcode \n but instead uses the proper line ending for the platform it's running on.

[-] uranibaba@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I haven't worked with java for a couple of months now, currently working in Delphi, so could not remember the how else to do new line except backslash n on top of my head. :-)

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