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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: trigraphs in X3J11
Message-ID: <8075@elsie.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 88 17:29:45 GMT
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> I think a simple solution to this problem is possible.  Why not
> have the compiler print a warning if it detects a trigraph?

No. . .the commpiler should only print a warning if a particular file contains
both trigraphs *and* trigraphable characters.  This way folks who write
"pure trigraph" code won't get inundated with warnings.  The scheme is
effective since '#' is a trigraphable character.
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