Why does readln include the line terminator?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:19:49 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> Georg Wrede wrote:
>> In 25 years of computing, I have yet to see a file where variation of  
>> line termintators in the file contained some /deliberate/ information.
>
> 25 years and no networking code?

Been writing code for about 12 years, lots and lots of networking code.   
Still have never seen this.  Don't see your point either.

-Steve