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Article #5079Re: Why trigraphs? What happened to the DIgraphs?
From: Karl Heuer
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1988 14:44
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1988 14:44
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In article <1302@ark.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>Why use trigraphs if digraphs are available?
> [ = .(
> ] = .)
Sorry, but ".)" is already a valid sequence in C code: x=cos(1.)
The trigraphs have the property that no existing code contains them outside of
comments and strings.
If you're going to followup with an improved proposal, please note that there
are nine characters ( #[\]^{|}~ ) to be handled.
Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!spdcc!ima!haddock!karl From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Why trigraphs? What happened to the DIgraphs? Summary: What digraphs? Message-ID: <4599@haddock.ISC.COM> Date: 17 Jun 88 14:44:29 GMT References: <19345@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1302@ark.cs.vu.nl> Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston Lines: 13