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Uglier than trigraphs? Also, I've long wondered why complex numbers were added to C. They seem like an inappropiately feature for a systems language.
by quizmaster 15y ago
Uglier than trigraphs?
Also, I've long wondered why complex numbers were added to C. They seem like an inappropiately feature for a systems language.
- plorkyeran 15y agoTrigraphs are certainly weird, but they're also simple enough that I wouldn't really consider them ugly. I assume complex numbers were added for the same reason as tgmath.h: a mostly failed attempt to get people to switch from Fortran to C.