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From: drw@cullvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Stop adding types, Let's remove Trigraphs instead!!
Message-ID: <1266@cullvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Jun-87 10:22:39 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 10 10:22:39 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jun-87 04:59:14 EDT
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franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
> Is the standard really written in such a way that trigraphs *cannot* be
> implemented as a pre-processor external to the compiler itself?  I find this
> hard to believe.

No, you can process them as a preprocessor, but still, any program
that contains "???" and doesn't use it to mean "?" is non-conforming.
So even if you don't use the preprocessor, you can't escape from its
shadow.  (Though I don't think trigraphs are really so bad.)

Dale
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