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Comment by profquail | Hacker News Reader

Awesome comment on trigraphs in C:

These let you use the "WTF operator":

  (foo() != ERROR)??!??! cerr << "Error occurred" << endl;

[Language pedant: although it's legal C, the use of cerr and endl and << is more likely to occur in C++!]

<< is C++ only.

<< is the left-shift operator in C, so the OP's code is syntactically valid C.

It ought not to compile though, since it's trying to shift cerr by a string!

Thanks. Sorry. I'm stupid...

"Goddamn operator overloading" -- Rev Wright

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