pipe symbol wierdness

[Fred J. Tydeman]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:44:37 -0700, John Bridges wrote:

>On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:27:53 -0400, Larry Ebbitt wrote:
>
>>Think of the poor guys who use C or C++ on the OS/390 mainframe.  3270
>>doesn't support [ or ].
>
>I remember many years ago an alternate syntax for C which didn't need full
>ASCII, could work with uppercase+symbols (like on machines with 6bit bytes). 
>Something like
>
>MAIN(INT ARGC,CHAR **ARGV)
>(*
>	IF(WHATEVER)
>	(*
>	*)
>*)
>
>Pretty fugly.

Mainly because of the subset of ASCII used in many places
in Europe, trigraphs and digraphs were added to Standard C.
 [ == ??( == <:
 ] == ??) == :>
 { == ??< == <%
 } == ??> == %>

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