On 10 Nov 97 06:04:35 GMT, "Rick Bielawski"
<delete.rbielaws@leadbelt.com> wrote:

>In trying to get a more solid grasp I decided to read the draft
>standard.  The copy I have is dated 02DEC1996.  In it I found a
>seemingly contradictory series of statements.

>2.3.1 contains "Table 1 -- trigraph sequences...".  A table then follows.
>2.3.2 contains some examples of trigraph use. ...

You have found a well-known error in the draft, corrected in later
versions. It has also been noted several times in this newsgroup and
in comp.lang.c++.moderated.

The paragraph in question now reads in its entirety:

"No other trigraph sequence exists. Each ? that does not begin one of
the trigraphs listed above is not changed."

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I'm fairly new to C++.
In trying to get a more solid grasp I decided to read the draft
standard.  The copy I have is dated 02DEC1996.  In it I found a
seemingly contradictory series of statements.

2.3.1 contains "Table 1 -- trigraph sequences...".  A table then follows.
2.3.2 contains some examples of trigraph use.
2.3.3 seems to go out of its way by stating "[Note: no other trigraph
sequence exists. Each ? that does not begin one of the trigraphs listed
above is not changed. ]

The odd thing is that 2.3.4 contains several examples such as
'"???=" becomes "?="' which seem to imply that ??? is a trigraph.
This is explicitly contradicted by 2.3.3 since this sequence
does not appear in Table 1 of 2.3.1.
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