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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:58:56 +1000
From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc
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never understimate trigraphs for something that made it into a standard
but nobody every uses.  ever.

brucee.

On 4/27/07, Joel C. Salomon <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/26/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> > are these c99 "features" from /sys/src/cmd/cc/c99 really features
> > or are they "unwanted"?
> >
> > 11. _Complex, _Imaginary, _Bool
>
> That'd be a question for the HPC people; ron, do you miss complex types in 9c?
>
> _Bool is a notational convenience, maybe helping document functions
> returning only pass/fail status, or for the isalpha(2) family of
> functions.
>
> > 18. Notation for universal characters \uXXXX
>
> For the characters in Plan 9's char set, it's unneeded; you can type
> the character in as many keystrokes (Alt, X, xxxx).  For characters
> outside Unicode's BMP, it's not terribly helpful, since Plan 9 doesn't
> understand them at all.
>
> That said, these universal characters aren't hard to implement at all.
>  Come semester's end and I'll submit a patch to add them to the lexer.
>