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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Portable Self-Replicating C Contest
Message-ID: <6647@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 89 04:13:03 GMT
References: <12144@haddock.ima.isc.com> <12593@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <12593@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
writes:
>The nine characters   # ^ ~ { | } [ \ ]  are not
>allowed to appear in the source; you must use the trigraph equivalents   ??=
>??' ??- ??< ??! ??> ??( ??/ ??)   instead.

(I'm ??xorry, my ??x key i??x broken, ??xo I'm ??xub??xtituting the
trigraph ??x in it??x place.)

I'm curiou??x to know:  What i??x the purpo??xe of the rule above?  All
it will do i??x make ??xubmitted program??x harder to read, and nearly
impo??x??xible to make ??xen??xe of in a ca??xual ??xcan.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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