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- From: tanner@cdis-1.compu.com (Dr. T. Andrews)
- Subject: Re: Questions about token merging and trigraphs
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 21:25:45 GMT
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- ) What are trigraphs?
- Trigraphs are an unpleasant invention from the successor to the
- horse committee. You will recall that the horse committee gave
- us the camel. Well, X3J11 gave us trigraphs. I believe that the
- intention was to prove that standards groups do better when they
- stick with endorsing widely-used practice.
-
- Trigraphs are a nasty way to write certain characters in the C
- source character set. These more difficult characters are
- represented as three characters starting with "??". For
- instance, you can represent `#' as "??=".
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- The change means that certain old programs may have strings, most
- likely error messages, compiled into something unexpected.
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