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- From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald)
- Subject: Re: Questions about token merging and trigraphs
- References: <1TA04E3@cdis-1.compu.com> <2404@sdrc.COM> <mcdonald.610@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec17.183045.2737@sal.wisc.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:58:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.183045.2737@sal.wisc.edu> alan@sal.wisc.edu (Alan Watson) writes:
-
- >In article <mcdonald.610@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) writes:
- >>That last it **UTTERLY WRONG**. I found that **many** of my programs
- >>broke!! **MANY** .. and they had lots of occurences of ??!,
- >>??) ??(, ??[. and ??] in them, in **critical** places!!!
- >>
- >>I chose them as delimiters in a special ASCII file format for data,
- >>and chose them as no one would be likely to try to use them as
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>actual strings in the text-comment portion of the file!! They are coded
- >>into the program in strings .. and it would not have been so bad had
- >>not the idiotic ANSI committee decided that they would be replaced in
- >>strings as well as code!!
-
- >It sounds like your code was broken in the first place; never make
- >assumption about what your users might and might not do.
-
- The users have nothing to do with this. They are files created by the
- program; the're encrypted binary files from text source. I, and I alone,
- write this source (its art, not programming :-) )
-
- Doug McDonald
-