Talk:Terminal control/Cursor movement: Difference between revisions

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:If there's no "standard" behavior for your chosen language... shrug. Do as you see fit. -- [[User:Eriksiers|Erik Siers]] 11:53, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
 
:: Well, actually, the '''CURSOR''' bif in PC/REXX (and PersonnalPersonal REXX) interpreter doesn't ''move'' the cursor, it ''places'' it. Any movement on the REXX program's part is actually performed by arithmetic and then '''CURSOR''' just places (or moves, it you prefer) the cursor to the location specified. I saw no reason to incourage a program failure by ensuring a '''SYNTAX''' error (illegal function call) in the REXX program, so I took it upon myself to do what I would expect a smart terminal to do, that is: wrap. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 18:21, 16 August 2012 (UTC)