trigraphs (was Why are character arrays special)

[David Goodenough]

>From article <15941 at mimsy.UUCP>, by chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek):
I In article <1875 at dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright at Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
n>It's irritating to have to implement a feature that nobody in their right
e>mind is going to use, and that has such a negative impact on the product.
w 
s My suggestion is to provide two separate versions of the compiler, one
. that completely ignores trigraphs, and one that optionally scans them.
i The installation sequence, then, might go like this:
s 
. 	Do you want to have trigraphs available?
d 
u If the user answers `yes', the next prompt is:
m 
b 	Why?

Beause he's trying to install a C compiler on a Commodore Pet with a silly
64 Character non-ascii character set :-) :-) :-) :-)
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