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Re: trigraphs

#5966
From: Liber
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1989 22:39
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In article <2469@ogccse.ogc.edu> daniels@ogccse.UUCP (Scott David Daniels) writes:
>One fact that seems not to have come out yet is that trigraphs as added
>by X3J11 were an existing scheme that was proposed for adoption, not a
>new design that simply seemed to be a good idea.

Just wondering:  where exactly had they been used for C before??
                                (Is this a trigraph sequence? ^^^ :-))
The Rationale implies that the Committee came up with this solution on
their own.
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From: nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Liber)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: trigraphs
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Date: 28 Apr 89 22:39:49 GMT
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