From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: prog@ Date: 15 Nov 2002 00:11:39 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 39 Message-ID: <3246307899334849@naggum.no> References: <3DD3C637.1060702@web.de> <465v0yscu.fsf@beta.franz.com> <3DD3EB39.7070504@web.de> <41y5oynjz.fsf@beta.franz.com> <3246295927696009@naggum.no> <3246302959841412@naggum.no> <87adkbvhce.fsf@darkstar.cartan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1037319101 25897 129.240.65.5 (15 Nov 2002 00:11:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Nov 2002 00:11:41 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:46697 * Nils Goesche | Pardon my ignorance, but google didn't help much in this case. | What are trigrams? A way for really stupid people to write C without changing to a rational keyboard layout. I see now that they are actually called "trigraphs". In brief, the following replacements are made at a very early stage in the processing of the input files. ??= --> # ??( --> [ ??/ --> \ ??) --> ] ??' --> ^ ??< --> { ??! --> | ??> --> } ??- --> ~ As if this was not enough, we also have support for "digraphs": In all aspects of the language, the six tokens <: :> <% %> %: %:%: behave, respectively, the same as the six tokens [ ] { } # ## except for their spelling. The most significant consequence of these stunts is that you cannot hold obfuscated C contests, anymore. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.