Re: Alternative to ~= for inequality?
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- Subject: Re: Alternative to ~= for inequality?
- From: Sean Conner <sean@...>
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 22:23:48 -0500
It was thus said that the Great Michael Richter once stated:
>
> You mean like {…}? Which is probably the single biggest blight^Wblock
> grouping construct in computing today?
...
> This list goes on and on and on without end. When it's possible at all for
> many keyboard layouts, it's a wrist-twisting torture. Therefore, by your
> logic, we should be lobbying for C, C++, Java, C#, Tcl, etc. etc. etc. to
> be changing their syntax.
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 ... )