In article <lgquvt$b7t$1...@speranza.aioe.org>,
Mark H Harris <harrismh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/24/14 10:51 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > Supporting both may look tempting, but you effectively create two ways
> > of spelling the exact same thing; it'd be like C's trigraphs. Do you
> > know what ??= is,
>
> This was a fit for me, back in the day IBM (system36 & system38). When
> we started supporting the C compiler (ha!) and non of our 5250 terminals
> could provide the C punctuation we take for granted today--- so we
> invented tri-graphs for { and } and others. It was a hoot.
Our ASR-33s didn't have { and }, so we used \( and \). To be honest, I
don't remember if the c compiler understood those, or if it was mapped
at the tty driver level.
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