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Line continuation – escapes a newline to continue a statement on the next line Some languages define a special character as a terminator while some, called line-oriented , rely on the newline . Typically, a line-oriented language includes a line continuation feature whereas other languages have no need for line continuation since newline is ...
A snippet of Java code with keywords highlighted in bold blue font. The syntax of Java is the set of rules defining how a Java program is written and interpreted. The syntax is mostly derived from C and C++. Unlike C++, Java has no global functions or variables, but has data members which are also regarded as global variables.
The C language defines whitespace characters to be "space, horizontal tab, new-line, vertical tab, and form-feed". [29] The HTTP network protocol requires different types of whitespace to be used in different parts of the protocol, such as: only the space character in the status line, CRLF at the end of a line, and "linear whitespace" in header ...
Reducing the cost of software maintenance is the most often cited reason for following coding conventions. In the introductory section on code conventions for the Java programming language, Sun Microsystems offers the following reasoning: [2]
The terms "line-delimited JSON" and "newline-delimited JSON" are often used without clarifying if embedded newlines are supported. In the past the NDJ specification ("newline-delimited JSON") [8] allowed comments to be embedded if the first two characters of a given line were "//". This could not be used with standard JSON parsers if comments ...
q" end-of-string-id newline content newline end-of-string-id " In D, the end-of-string-id must be an identifier (alphanumeric characters). In some programming languages, such as sh and Perl , there are different delimiters that are treated differently, such as doing string interpolation or not, and thus care must be taken when choosing which ...
A Here document allows the inclusion of arbitrary content by describing a special end sequence. Many languages support this including PHP, bash scripts, ruby and perl. A here document starts by describing what the end sequence will be and continues until that sequence is seen at the start of a new line. [25] Here is an example in perl:
The end of text character (ETX) marked the end of the data of a message. A widely used convention is to make the two characters preceding ETX a checksum or CRC for error-detection purposes. The end of transmission block character (ETB) was used to indicate the end of a block of data, where data was divided into such blocks for transmission ...