It is so easy to change a parser to check for this condition
that the fact it is a common problem doesn't make it not a problem,
however.

There are valid reasons that one might want to omit a newline
from a file end.   But I can think of no reason a parser
would not want to conclude EOF was a line terminator (unless
this is viewed as some sort of scheme to catch truncated
files)

So I agree with "ingo" that this is validly called a bug.

Dan

P.S. Thanks for the LINUX port, but that's for another group...

Ron Parker wrote:
> This is a common problem for a lot of languages.  So much so, in fact, that
> people in at least one other newsgroup will tell you that if your editor
> allows you to create a text file with no newline after the last line, then
> the flaw lies in your editor, not in the parser.  I tend to agree with them.

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