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From: alan@Apple.COM (Alan Mimms)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: trigraphs in X3J11
Message-ID: <10626@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 20 May 88 20:02:38 GMT
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Reply-To: alan@apple.UUCP (Alan Mimms)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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Perhaps the best solution to the trigraph dilemma is to make available some
public-domain filters for converting from- and to- the trigraph notation.
This would permit those unfortunate enough to have strange character sets
to write C code and to port that code to a machine whose C compiler does
NOT support the trigraph notation and back again with minimal pain.

I BELIEVE I understand that the trigraph notation is a simple transformation
of the normal ASCII-based C notation.  Consequently, it should be quite
simple to convert in both directions.  The only problem might be in strings
in programs which produce C programs as their output -- in which case, the
filters come to the rescue by converting the program's output before it is
compiled.

Doesn't this make most of the flamers happy?

-- 
Alan Mimms			My opinions are generally
Communications Products Group	pretty worthless, but
Apple Computer			they *are* my own...
...it's so simple that only a child can do it!  -- Tom Lehrer, "New Math"