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Removing Trigraphs

Explore the removal of trigraphs in C++17 to understand how this change enhances code readability and simplifies the compilation process by discarding rarely used character sequences. This lesson helps you grasp the practical implications of this language update for cleaner and more efficient C++ programming.

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Trigraphs are special character sequences that could be used when a system doesn’t support 7-bit ASCII (like ISO 646). For example ??= generated #, ??- produced . (All of C++’s basic source character set ...