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Article #5121Re: Why trigraphs? What happened to the DIgraphs?
From: Maarten Litmaath
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1988 16:39
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1988 16:39
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In article <4599@haddock.ISC.COM> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
\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.)
My mistake, sorry indeed.
\If you're going to followup with an improved proposal, please note that there
\are nine characters ( #[\]^{|}~ ) to be handled.
The only digraph solutions I can think of, are the use of '$', '`' or '@';
however, isn't it strange that the latter, being such a wierd character,
is supposed to be available on every terminal?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!botter!ark.cs.vu.nl!maart From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Why trigraphs? What happened to the DIgraphs? Message-ID: <1305@ark.cs.vu.nl> Date: 20 Jun 88 16:39:02 GMT References: <19345@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1302@ark.cs.vu.nl> <4599@haddock.ISC.COM> Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 19