Browsing changes from http://69.251.218.6:9116/diffs in CompositionScanner
shows that it comes from 4015twoColumnGeeMail-raa.cs
So the intention is revealed :)
Is the fact that newPage is hijacked and re-interpreted as a columnBreak a
current practice or is it a hack?
In one case, this can stay in Character, in the other it deserves a better
packaging...



2013/10/1 Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu>

> On Tue, 1 Oct 2013, tim Rowledge wrote:
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>> On 01-10-2013, at 8:59 AM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
>>
>>  Does this method belong to Collections? Shouldn't it be an extension
>>> method?
>>>
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>> How is it not simply a Character constants method? I don't see how it is
>> any different to Character cr, or Character space etc.
>>
>
> The comment suggests that it's intended to be used by character scanners:
> "use a newPage to split columns in character scanners".
>
> Its users are in Graphics and MorphicExtras.
>
> Why would any character need two Character constants method?
>
> If it's just a Character constants method, then why not use #newPage
> instead?
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> Levente
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>> tim
>> --
>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>> To define recursion, we must first define recursion.
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