End Of Line

(EOL) Synonym for {newline}, derived perhaps from the original

{CDC6600} {Pascal}. Now rare, but widely recognised and

occasionally used for brevity. Used in the example entry

under {BNF}.

Out of context this would probably be (deliberately) ambiguous

because different systems used different (combinations of)

characters to mark the end of a line. {Unix} uses a {line

feed}; DOS uses {carriage return}, line feed ({CRLF}) and the

{Macintosh} uses carriage return.

See also {EOF}.

(1997-07-14)