Warning: no newline at end of file
 

ok, i'm bored with staring at my terminals... one factor involved in the staring prompts me to ask...

Why on earth should I care if my source code file doesn't end in a new line?????

Because parsers that aren't written very well always expect a newline at the end of every line. They only check for a eof after they read the complete line including the newline. It's a lot simpler to write a parser that way. But most programs check for either newline or eof.