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Re: trigraphs, yecch

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Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> writes:
[...]
> Has the C standards committee been flamed enough for trigraphs?  I don't
> think so.  I bet there's 1000 programmers bitten by them for every 1
> who's been helped.  By 1989 anyone who didn't have an editor capable of
> typing any 7-bit ASCII character was a hopeless luddite who would be
> better served making their own pre-preprocessing phase for C and leaving
> the language unchanged instead of another phase in the preprocessor for
> every C program forever and ever.

By 1989, there were plenty of C programmers using EBCDIC-based systems.
There probably still are, though not as many.  I understand there were
also some C programmers using keyboards and character sets that replaced
some ASCII punctuation characters with accented letters; that's probably
not as much of a concern these days.

I would have preferred a solution in which trigraphs are disabled by
default, and can be enabled explicitly by a directive at the top of each
source file.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
    Will write code for food.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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trigraphs, yecch cri@tiac.net (Richard Harter) - 2012-01-31 15:55 +0000
  Re: trigraphs, yecch pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-01-31 11:05 -0500
    Re: trigraphs, yecch Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-01-31 16:47 +0000
      Re: trigraphs, yecch cri@tiac.net (Richard Harter) - 2012-01-31 17:21 +0000
        Re: trigraphs, yecch James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-01-31 12:26 -0500
        Re: trigraphs, yecch Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-31 11:40 -0600
          Re: trigraphs, yecch Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-31 15:22 -0800
            Re: trigraphs, yecch "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-02-01 01:09 +0000
              Re: trigraphs, yecch James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-01-31 22:21 -0500
              Re: trigraphs, yecch Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-31 21:25 -0800
            Re: trigraphs, yecch "Charles Richmond" <netnews@aquaporin4.com> - 2012-01-31 23:40 -0600
              Re: trigraphs, yecch Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-31 22:19 -0800
                Re: trigraphs, yecch James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-02-01 08:27 -0500
        Re: trigraphs, yecch Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-01-31 17:47 +0000
        Re: trigraphs, yecch ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2012-01-31 09:41 -0800
        Re: trigraphs, yecch pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-01-31 13:17 -0500
  Re: trigraphs, yecch blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2012-01-31 09:56 -0800
  Re: trigraphs, yecch Peter Nilsson <airia@acay.com.au> - 2012-01-31 13:55 -0800
    Re: trigraphs, yecch Harald van Dijk <haraldvdijk@gmail.com> - 2012-01-31 14:02 -0800
      Re: trigraphs, yecch blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2012-01-31 14:06 -0800
        Re: trigraphs, yecch Harald van Dijk <haraldvdijk@gmail.com> - 2012-01-31 15:13 -0800
        Re: trigraphs, yecch "Charles Richmond" <netnews@aquaporin4.com> - 2012-01-31 23:44 -0600
          Re: trigraphs, yecch Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-31 22:20 -0800
            Re: trigraphs, yecch James Harris <james.harris.1@googlemail.com> - 2012-01-31 22:56 -0800
              Re: trigraphs, yecch Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-02-01 12:15 +0000
  Re: trigraphs, yecch Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-31 15:27 -0800
    Re: trigraphs, yecch Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> - 2012-01-31 17:01 -0800
      Re: trigraphs, yecch Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-31 19:50 -0800
        Re: trigraphs, yecch Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> - 2012-02-01 10:31 -0800
      Re: trigraphs, yecch James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-01-31 23:17 -0500
        Re: trigraphs, yecch "Joachim Schmitz" <nospam.jojo@schmitz-digital.de> - 2012-02-01 10:39 +0100
        Re: trigraphs, yecch Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-02-01 17:20 +0000
        Re: trigraphs, yecch Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> - 2012-02-01 11:11 -0800
      Re: trigraphs, yecch "Charles Richmond" <netnews@aquaporin4.com> - 2012-01-31 23:50 -0600
        Re: trigraphs, yecch ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2012-02-01 11:56 -0600
        Re: trigraphs, yecch Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> - 2012-02-01 11:12 -0800
        Re: trigraphs, yecch Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2012-02-01 13:29 -0600
          Re: trigraphs, yecch blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2012-02-01 11:35 -0800
            Re: trigraphs, yecch Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-02-01 19:59 +0000
              Re: trigraphs, yecch blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2012-02-01 12:41 -0800
                Re: trigraphs, yecch Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-02-01 22:55 +0000
            Re: trigraphs, yecch Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2012-02-01 14:44 -0600
              Re: trigraphs, yecch Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-02-01 22:55 +0000
        Re: trigraphs, yecch "christian.bau" <christian.bau@cbau.wanadoo.co.uk> - 2012-02-02 14:19 -0800
          Re: trigraphs, yecch Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> - 2012-02-06 20:40 -0800
            Re: trigraphs, yecch "Joachim Schmitz" <nospam.jojo@schmitz-digital.de> - 2012-02-07 11:40 +0100
      Re: trigraphs, yecch jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-02-02 14:15 +0000
  Re: trigraphs, yecch cri@tiac.net (Richard Harter) - 2012-02-01 16:52 +0000

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