title: Why doesn't ORACLE allow consecutive newline characters in commands?
body: <p>I write:</p>
  <pre><code>CREATE TABLE Person ( 
  name CHAR(10),
  
  ssn INTEGER);
  </code></pre>
  <p>and save it to a file &quot;a.sql&quot;.</p>
  <p>If I then run it by typing &quot;@a&quot; in the SQL*Plus command prompt, it will tell me that the line starting with &quot;ssn&quot; is not recognized as a command, and is ignored.</p>
  <p>From what I gather, it seems that sqlplus terminates a command if it encounters multiple newline characters in a row.  Is this an accurate statement?  If so, does anyone know if this is necessary/ why it chooses to do this?</p>