Re: Alternative to ~= for inequality?

[Andres Perera <andres.p@...>]

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Robert Virding
<robert.virding@erlang-solutions.com> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Sean Conner" <sean@conman.org>
>>
>>   Actually, C (C89 and later) *does* allow alternatives to the
>>   following
>> characters:
>>
>>       #
>>       \
>>       ^
>>       [
>>       ]
>>       |
>>       {
>>       }
>>       ~
>>       `
>>
>>   They are, in the order above:
>>
>>       ??=
>>       ??/
>>       ??'
>>       ??(
>>       ??)
>>       ??!
>>       ??{
>>       ??}
>>       ??-
>>
>>   Not the prettiest substitutions, but at least C makes the attempt.
>>
>>   -spc (Although I'm not sure if any Obsfucted C Code Contest entries
>>   ever
>>       used them ... )
>
> Using them is practically all you need to do to make an entry for the Obfusticated C Code. :-)

trigraphs are useful in preprocessed code where an upper layer
language takes precedence (think something like m4)

"esoteric input entry" isn't reserved to weird keyboards :)

>
> I remember some european/swedish versions of Pascal allowed (* *) for comments instead of { } and (. .) instead of [ ] because these characters were used as the swedish characters ä å and Ä Å. Terminals actually used the same ascii codes for swedish characters. Those were the days.
>
> Robert
>
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