Re: How to write Trigraph like character sequences in a string (was:Re: to "OR" or not to "OR")

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From: Charles Hannum
Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 06:19

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In article <m0jizgb-0001OzC@dharma.reed.edu> minar@reed.edu writes:

   the Gnu compiler specifically requires you to turn trigraphs ON
   (I think - that might have changed)

Not if you use '-ansi -pedantic' by default.  B-)  (Okay!  So I'm a pedant!)

   and Borland doesn't even have trigraphs in its compiler anymore,
   there's a program called trigraph.com that does the translation
   for you, so just don't execute it!

This is sloppy programming on Borland's part.  (Not surprising!  Borland has
been going steadily downhill for a while now.)

   Oh, I guess its not conforming code, but does anyone really use
   trigraphs? Really, anyone?

Yes.  I, for one, used them rather recently on an IBM 3090, with WATCOM C/370
(which purports to be ANSI-compliant).  The main reason for this is that IBM
3178 and 3179G terminals have no keys for square brackets.  As a C programmer,
I consider this extremely annoying.  B-/

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