[wxPython-users] A stupid English language question: new line or newline?

[Christopher Barker]

jmf wrote:
> When I name a function, I never know if I should write
> 
> AddNewLine in the sense Add + [a] + New + Line
> or
> AddNewline in the sense Add + [a] + Newline

I think newline is a word, at least in computer jargon, but it means 
"\n", rather than a new line added to a file or something. As in:

def AddNewline(string): # add a newline character to a string
     return string+"\n"

def AddNewLine(file, line):# write a new line to a file.
     file.write(AddNewline(line))


English doesn't technically allow one to just make new words by 
stringing existing words together (I think German does, at least 
Volkswagon indicates that: was "Fahrvergnügen" a word before they coined 
it?). However, new words are coined that way, and eventually become 
"official", and before that they can certainly be accepted jargon.

-Chris





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