According to that article, "/*", "*/", "(." and ".)" are not digraphs :(
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Peter Sylvester <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2024 10:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: C interface to MVS On 10/07/2024 13:03, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: > Hi, > > nice to hear, Peter ... how's the weather in Southern France? As you know there is a "NICE" city nearby. ;-) > > We wrote a C program to do the trigraph modification ... portable of course, > so that it could run on the mainframe, after the upload of the source (which > was done by the > ISPF workstation agent at that time) and just before the compile :-) Some time ago, I read the wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraphs_and_trigraphs_(programming) (I mention it hear because of IBM's involvement in the C++ field.. When I learned and use PASCAL in the 80's, I think I immediately had "forgotten" about (. .) begin a digraph. Someone might want to add a comment about tokenization of (.1.) vs (. 1 .) Best Peter ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
