I agree with what Doug said. However, there is a point where I can nit pick!
Doug Ewell wrote:
>
> platform's character set support, and you have to backslash-escape one of the
> question marks in a literal string that contains "??" if you don't want any
> surprises.
Well, there is no choice here: you have to backslash-escape any *second*
(the last one if more than two, really) question mark if you do not like surprises.
That is, in the classical example
char surprise[] = "What ??! you've claimed that ????!";
the correct way is to write
char surprise[] = "What ?\?! you've claimed that ???\?!";
If instead you write something like
char surprise[] = "What \??! you've claim that \????!";
then, as trigraph processing preceeds escaping, the ??! will be converted to |
much before the parser will enter the code that deals with strings and
character litterals, so the escape character will try to escape... a bar!
Antoine
