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From: dhe??xi@b??xu-c??x.b??xu.edu (Rahul Dhe??xi)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Portable Self-Replicating C Contest
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Date: 13 Apr 89 17:46:21 GMT
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In article <12629@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
writes:
>(One correct fix is to use `printf("?\?=")', but since `\' is itself a
>trigraphable character, this must be written `printf("???/?=")'!)
                                                       ^^^^^^
This seems awfully difficult for a lexical analyzer to handle, and
perhaps illustrates my point again.  (Isn't ? itself a trigraph
character, at least when ambiguity requires it?)

As a sporting gesture, would you be willing to repost the contest
rules, this time using trigraphs only in place of the offending
symbols?  If that doesn't make my point, nothing will.

Rahul Dhe??xi <dhe??xi@b??xu-c??x.b??xu.edu>
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