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Does this exist anywhere outside of C++? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 11 months ago (1 children)

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 11 months ago (1 children)

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 11 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. :-)