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  1. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
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  3. From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald)
  4. Subject: Re: Questions about token merging and trigraphs
  5. References: <42098@pprg.eece.unm.edu.pprg.unm.edu> <1TA04E3@cdis-1.compu.com> <2404@sdrc.COM> <mcdonald.610@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>
  6. Message-ID: <mcdonald.613@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>
  7. Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
  8. Organization: UIUC SCS
  9. Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:53:00 GMT
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  12. In article <mcdonald.610@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) writes:
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  15. >BECAUSE OF THEM, it is **IMPOSSIBLE** to write code that is both
  16. >K&R I and ANSI!!!
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  19. I'll retract that statement. It's not impossible, due to the presence of
  20. octal escapes in strings and/or the possibility of putting spaces
  21. where the offending characters go and then using assignment statements
  22. to fix them. KLUDGE. I should have known better than to say that,
  23. as octal escapes are what I used!
  24.  
  25. Doug McDonald
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