TERPRI


Meaning of TERPRI in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ /ter'pree/ vi. ]

[from LISP 1.5 (and later, MacLISP)] To output a newline . Now rare as jargon, though still used as techspeak in Common LISP. It is a contraction of `TERminate PRInt line', named for the fact that, on some early OSes and hardware, no characters would be printed until a complete line was formed, so this operation terminated the line and emitted the output.

Jargon File English vocabulary.      Английский словарь жаргона.