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   Keith Thompson to Tim Rentsch   
   Re: _BitInt(N)   
   15 Dec 25 14:19:44   
   
   From: Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com   
      
   Tim Rentsch  writes:   
   > Richard Heathfield  writes:   
   >> On 02/12/2025 23:33, Keith Thompson wrote:   
   [...]   
   >>> But trigraphs have been removed in C23.   
   >>   
   >> Then so, in some mainframe environments, have curly braces.  I suppose   
   >> their fix will be to not adopt C23.   
   >   
   > Curly braces are still available by means of the digraphs <% and %>.   
      
   True, and that's probably good enough, but digraphs aren't recognized   
   in string literals, character constants, header names, or comments.   
   Then again, if the system's character set doesn't even have '{'   
   and '}' characters, there isn't going to be much demand for them.   
      
   --   
   Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com   
   void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */   
      
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