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From: daniels@ogccse.ogc.edu (Scott David Daniels)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: trigraphs
Summary: trigraphs in ANSI-C were established practice
Message-ID: <2469@ogccse.ogc.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 89 21:30:16 GMT
References: <4623@freja.diku.dk> <12.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.UUCP>
Reply-To: daniels@ogccse.UUCP (Scott David Daniels)
Organization: Oregon Graduate Center, Beaverton, OR
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One fact that seems not to have come out yet is that trigraphs as added
by X3J11 were an existing scheme that was proposed for adoption, not a
new design that simply seemed to be a good idea.  I suspect that is part
of the problem with the Danish proposal: the trigraphs we voted on were
something that had been in use for a couple of years, whereas the Danish 
scheme sounded like "this would be an even better idea:...", very little
evidence there would be no nasty surprises later.
-Scott Daniels (short-term X3J11 member may moons ago