Re: [ALACPP] GotW solutions out

[Kevin Scaldeferri <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, May 17, 2003, at 02:24 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:

> http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/086.htm
>
> I don't know if any of you guys still read GotW stuff, but the latest 
> set of solutions proved to me that there are far more subtle bugs out 
> there than the problem I was talking about before. Even knowing these 
> were trick questions I have to say I was pretty much blown away by 
> problem #86.
>
> --Chris "I will have to study my digraphs and trigraphs" Smith

Ugh... that's just evil.  I have to confess I'd never encountered this 
"feature" of the language before and even after reading the 
justification for it's inclusion it seems like a really bad idea.  
Besides the potential for subtle bugs like this, it seems almost 
pointless.  I mean, aren't people who can't figure out how to type 
\,~,|, etc pretty crippled already?  Whether you use Windows or Unix, 
it seems like you need those characters.

Also, I'm trying to think why \ needs to function as a continuation 
character in a language which isn't sensitive to whitespace.  In fact 
it seems like the _only_ function of it is to enable subtle bugs of the 
single-line-comment-isn't variety.

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