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From: njk@freja.diku.dk (Niels J|rgen Kruse)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: New US Rep to ISO C
Message-ID: <4617@freja.diku.dk>
Date: 24 Apr 89 19:54:14 GMT
References: <6.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.UUCP>
Organization: DIKU, U of Copenhagen, DK
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rex@aussie.UUCP (Rex Jaeschke) writes:

>Hi, I'm the new US representative for X3J11 to the ISO C working

>The primary objection at this stage comes from the Danes who want
                                                    ?????
Who are they and what do they represent?

>issue. The problem stems from the fact that they use the ISO-646
>character set which, as you may know, doesn't have characters such as
>[, ], {, }, #, |, and \. They also wanted an infix operator ! as an
>alternate to subscripting such that a!b == a[b]. There are technical
                                     ^^^ Argh!

>problems they have not solved (for example, how to write a[]) and this

The solution is to buy equipment that support both ascii and
ISO-646, using ascii for programming and ISO-646 for danish
text. Even when stuck with ISO-646 only equipment it is not too
hard to memorize the ISO-646 characters that map into the
bitpatterns recognized by C compilers as {}[]|\. (ISO-646 is
identical to ascii except for {}[]|\ )

>Rex
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Name         : Niels J|rgen Kruse
Organization : DIKU, University of Copenhagen, Computer Science dept.
Email        : njk@diku.dk
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