trigraphs in X3J11

[Henry Spencer]

> Our particular implimentation was controlled by an option flag, so it didn't
> harm native mode APL work.  A clear deficiency in the ANSI proposal.

I would expect that this is the way many C compilers will implement trigraphs;
I know of some that already take that approach.  Lots of people share your
view that trigraphs are ugly.
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