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Seems the most likely place you'd want to use this is to select a non-
native line ending in a situation where you didn't want to use universal
newlines (select \r as a line ending on Unix, for example, and allow
\n to just be another character).  In that case they'd clearly still be
lines, so embellishing the normal line reading machinery without
adding a new method would be most appropriate.