From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <775b8d190705300353h1efe8a1cu33f5e0eb9e5dc854@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 20:53:23 +1000 From: "Bruce Ellis" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] C is me In-Reply-To: <2rydncTa6Pj4bsHbnZ2dnUVZ_qyjnZ2d@comcast.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <775b8d190705290043v35176707lf36bcb3f0b9a2bdb@mail.gmail.com> <2rydncTa6Pj4bsHbnZ2dnUVZ_qyjnZ2d@comcast.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7597509a-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 what else should i learn, except to be surprised by them screwing with me? do tell. brucee On 5/30/07, Douglas A. Gwyn wrote: > "Bruce Ellis" wrote... > > ok. well i declared a string today "/??/n:", because that's > > what iomangler throws at me as a prefix, at times. > > Perhaps if you'd learned about trigraphs instead of griping about them, > you'd at least have suspected there could be a problem. At least there > is a simple workaround. > > P.S. I think it was a mistake for the standard not to also provide a > trigraph sequence that expands to ?. It would make automated > code generation easier. >