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		happytoexplain on Oct 6, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Whence '\n'? Ohh, a lot of spoken and unspoken things in the article made me think this was supposed to be a bug/quirk investigation. This makes much more sense.

antonvs on Oct 7, 2024 [–]

It is a kind of bug/quirk: it implies that the compiler is not buildable from scratch in its current form. It depends on a binary that knows how to translate \n.

happytoexplain on Oct 7, 2024 | [–]

Right, I just mistook which thing was the bug/quirk.

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