Re: Alternative to ~= for inequality?

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 2/13/2013 12:45 AM, martinwguy wrote:
> The argument of extending language syntax to get round the missing
> keys on some people's keyboards was taken to the limits in the ANSI
> standard for C, resulting in the universally-hated "trigraphs"
> extension, which even GNU refused to implement.

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Initial-processing.html

> Designing a language to use only the subset of characters present on
> all international keyboards seems to be a road to oblivion.
>
> Of course, you can hack the source to make your own version... or use
> a macro-preprocessor to substitute ~= for != in your source while
> compiling it...

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Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia