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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Definition of isprint()
Message-ID: <12829@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 19 Dec 88 17:36:12 GMT
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In article <9206@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:

| Yes, I checked this with our fearless Redactor, who assures me that
| the Committee deliberately decided not to be more specific about
| these functions even in the "C" locale.  Given the wide variety of
| display technologies in use, it's not clear that many of these
| functions are all that useful anyway.  (isspace() is about the best.)

  Perhaps what we need is "isC()" which is like is print, but defines
any required character in C source to be "printing" for purposes of
compiler action. I usually want to avoid printing "magic" characters
when I use isprint. I suppose that there are (or will be) versions in
which characters like '{' will not be printing, unless represented by an
escape sequence.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me