Curious about code in privutil.sql

I'm looking at the script modplsql\owa\privutil.sql (as supplied in the 9205 security#68 release) and it has the following section:

   /* The broken line below is intentional */    NL_CHAR constant char(1) := '
';

Anyone understand what the idea is behind this intentional broken line?

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Terry Dykstra
Canadian Forest Oil Ltd.