Macro substitution in character literals

[Karl Heuer]

In article <1990Dec08.014241.435 at kithrup.COM> sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>Microsoft C 6.0 has a #@ construct [for charizing a macro argument].
>I know, it's not standard, but it is upwardly compatable with the standard,
>and they might try to press for it for the next version of the standard.

Since `@' is not part of the required character set, such a change would
require either a new trigraph, or an admission that trigraphs were never
necessary in the first place.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl at ima.isc.com or uunet!ima!karl), The Walking Lint