How to write Trigraph like character sequences in a string (was:Re: to "OR" or not to "OR")
Charles Hannum
mycroft at goldman.gnu.ai.mit.edu
Fri May 31 16:19:20 AEST 1991
In article <m0jizgb-0001OzC at dharma.reed.edu> minar at reed.edu writes:
the Gnu compiler specifically requires you to turn trigraphs ON
(I think - that might have changed)
Not if you use '-ansi -pedantic' by default. B-) (Okay! So I'm a pedant!)
and Borland doesn't even have trigraphs in its compiler anymore,
there's a program called trigraph.com that does the translation
for you, so just don't execute it!
This is sloppy programming on Borland's part. (Not surprising! Borland has
been going steadily downhill for a while now.)
Oh, I guess its not conforming code, but does anyone really use
trigraphs? Really, anyone?
Yes. I, for one, used them rather recently on an IBM 3090, with WATCOM C/370
(which purports to be ANSI-compliant). The main reason for this is that IBM
3178 and 3179G terminals have no keys for square brackets. As a C programmer,
I consider this extremely annoying. B-/
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