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sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:

>Also sprach Erik M. van der Poel (erik@srava.sra.co.jp):
>>codes, and (b) is where you get the software to deal with ISO 646 by
>>avoiding the use of ISO 646 substitutable characters in programming
>>constructs, etc. With (b) you create incompatibility between e.g.
>>Scandinavia and USA, which I would think is a very big disadvantage.

>Only if we hack the compiler locally or write our own stuff. What
>I want is of course alternative characters, so I don't have to
>use the brackets and braces. Some languages like Pascal provides
>this.

Actually this can be done in the current ISO/ANSI C standard also,
via the trigraph sequences. And other proposals have been made
for ISO/ANSI C, because some people (including myself) do not
find the trigraphs very useful (they are unreadable, IMHO).

Keld Simonsen