D - more or less power than C++?

[Walter Bright]

"Georg Wrede" <georg.wrede at nospam.org> wrote in message 
news:440B99E1.6090000 at nospam.org...
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Should D support trigraphs?
> No. Period!

I agree <g>. No danger of that happening.

> A historical note: They never were more than a make-believe solution for 
> "other peoples' problem". In the good Old Days, when we would have needed 
> trigraphs, we still didn't use them.

I know. Trigraphs are a fine example of a solution that was so awful that 
people preferred the problem.

> Last, but not least: the problem trigraphs seek to remedy, is such 
> pre-ancient history that it should not even be mentioned with a modern 
> programming language.

Yup. Trigraphs are not the solution, UTF is.