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> The post shows a “favorite C trigraph” thing, not that they were going out of their way to use trigraphs in actual code or that you should. But I am free to
by wslh 2y ago
> The post shows a “favorite C trigraph” thing, not that they were going out of their way to use trigraphs in actual code or that you should.
But I am free to be curious and ask the author why he choose it! We are not computers but human beings! There is no HN rule that says that I cannot be curious and asks a question that arised from a thread but it is not connected to that! [1].
[1] https://www.iflscience.com/charles-babbage-once-sent-the-most-pedantic-letter-to-tennyson-mathematically-correcting-his-poem-59618 https://www.iflscience.com/charles-babbage-once-sent-the-mos...
- kergonath 2y ago> But I am free to be curious and ask the author why he choose it They chose it because the discussion is about trigraphs. It is not a particularly surprising choice to talk about trigraphs in that context. > There is no HN rule that says that I cannot be curious and asks a question that arised from a thread but it is not connected to that! I did not write that you did not follow HN rules, just that your question was very strange in the context. I did not downvote you, but I understand why some people did. Your question was a bit passive agressive, even if you did not mean it.