Why trigraphs? What happened to the DIgraphs?

Maarten Litmaath maart at cs.vu.nl
Wed Jun 15 23:29:05 AEST 1988


Why use trigraphs if digraphs are available?
E.g.:
	[ = .(
	] = .)
(Isn't the dot a much better candidate to introduce such a digraph, than a
question mark? Have you ever seen a source using many trigraphs? Ugly!)
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