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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Sort of trivial code challenge - may be interesting to you anyway
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:13:52 -0800
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DFS <nospam@dfs.com> writes:
> On 3/4/2026 5:44 AM, Bonita Montero wrote:
>
> <code below>
>
>
> Your first code compiled fine
>
> $ g++ rc-montero1.cpp -o rc
> $
>
>
> but this one tossed out a lot of errors.
>
>
> $ g++ rc-montero2.cpp -o rc
>
> rc-montero2.cpp:13:1: error: extended character   is not valid in an
> identifier
>    13 |     if( argc < 3 )
>       | ^
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Apparently the code you compiled contained NO-BREAK-SPACE (U+00a0)
characters, and your compiler didn't tolerate them.  They have
have been in the original source (and compiled with a compiler that
accepts them), or they may have been introduced in the process of
posting the code to Usenet.  (I frankly don't care which.)

You really really didn't need to post hundreds of lines of error
messages to make that point -- especially since the code was C++
and should never have been posted to comp.lang.c in the first place.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */