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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Oh, I didn't know about digraphs at all. C++ is a really big language.

And wow, that's a well hidden footgun.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Feels like this thing should require an extra flag in case of gcc in this day and age, or a separate compile-time defined variable, specifically for cases where you don't want to require the flag.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

To be fair, the biggest footguns are the trigraphs, and now that I tested those do require a flag in gcc.

The digraphs are just hard to search, never used operator symbols.