1. endless loop infinite loop End Of Line EOL Synonym for newline, derived perhaps from the original CDC6600 Pascal. The abbreviation "EOL" is now rare, but widely recognised and occasionally used for brevity. Used in the example entry under BNF. Out of context this would probably be deliberately ambiguous because different systems used different combinations of characters to mark the end of a line. Unix uses a line feed; DOS uses carriage return, line feed CRLF and the Macintosh uses carriage return. See also EOF.
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