Yes, ??= is the trigraph for #. Talk about hash!

Trigraphs go away in C++17. 

Charles


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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
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Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 10:23 AM
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Subject: Re: EBCDIC (was: Json table characters)

On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 09:55:08 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:

>Thank you -- I did not know about not. I see here 
>https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/operator_alternative that there is 
>a whole family of these including not_eq.
>
>I have encountered IBM files that used the C++ trigraphs: ??< for { and so 
>forth. What an unreadable mess! (IMHO, obviously)
> 
I understand that some compilers have a #pragma that disables trigraphs.
Alas, "#" may not be entirely portable and may need to be coded as a
trigraph.

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