trigraphs in X3J11

[Aled Morris]

In article <10949 at apple.Apple.Com>, lenoil at Apple.COM (Robert Lenoil) writes:
> Instead of introducing a totally new notion
> (to C, anyway) of trigraphs, why not simply extend the backslash escape
> mechanism to be valid outside of strings?

I strongly agree with this proposal.  Trigraphs introduce a totally new
feature into the language, which is going to take some getting used to.
I can see some bugs creeping into my strings (and I bet they wont be in
the strings that get used very often, so they won't be easy to spot!)

Just one minor problem---isn't the backslash character one of the glyphs
missing from the Invarient Code Set?  Ah well....

Aled Morris

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