lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote:
Interesting. I wonder why the standard deeemd it necessary to provide
an escape sequence for the question mark ?

Because there is a rather arcane way to represent characters in which
three question marks appear prominently.  I recall now that it's
called "trigraphs".

Don't look it up, no one in his right mind would take that standard
seriously.

++L

We used them extensively in the mid-1990s when we compiled C code on the MVS platform. The TSO editor has no understanding certain characters needed for C, so trigraphs were used. I would assume zOS C programmers still use them.

Jim
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