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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Why trigraphs? What happened to the DIgraphs?
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Date: 15 Jun 88 13:29:05 GMT
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Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
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Why use trigraphs if digraphs are available?
E.g.:
	[ = .(
	] = .)
(Isn't the dot a much better candidate to introduce such a digraph, than a
question mark? Have you ever seen a source using many trigraphs? Ugly!)
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