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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Stop adding types, Let's remove Trigraphs instead!!
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Date: Wed, 27-May-87 17:46:56 EDT
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>> Seriously, why did ANSI decide to add trigraphs to the standard?
>
>They were put in so that people with Non-English terminals could use C.

That may be, but they are still UGLY!  The proposed standard says that
a conforming C implementation must be able to accept source code with
trigraphs in it:  I would rather see it be optional, or implemented as
a pre-processer external to the compiler itself.

I sympathise with those with Terminals that don't display {}#'~ etc,
but that is no reason to screw up the C language!