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- From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald)
- Subject: Re: Questions about token merging and trigraphs
- References: <42098@pprg.eece.unm.edu.pprg.unm.edu> <1TA04E3@cdis-1.compu.com> <2404@sdrc.COM> <mcdonald.610@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:53:00 GMT
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- In article <mcdonald.610@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) writes:
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- >BECAUSE OF THEM, it is **IMPOSSIBLE** to write code that is both
- >K&R I and ANSI!!!
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- I'll retract that statement. It's not impossible, due to the presence of
- octal escapes in strings and/or the possibility of putting spaces
- where the offending characters go and then using assignment statements
- to fix them. KLUDGE. I should have known better than to say that,
- as octal escapes are what I used!
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- Doug McDonald
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