Subject: Re: prog@ From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 15 Nov 2002 00:11:39 +0000 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3246307899334849@naggum.no> * 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.