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. Using trigraphs is the whole premise so no, your question makes no sense in that context.
FWIW the ??!??! double trigraph as error processing is funny because of the meaning of ?! and various combinations of ? and !. It is funny and it has trigraphs. That’s the whole point.
> 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].
> 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.
My reading of the downvoted question was one of genuine curiosity of why the author chose that as a favorite trigraph, as in “why that one instead of another”, not as criticism of the choice of trigraph over something more conventional. I may be wrong of course, but it didn’t seem like a particularly malicious question to me and your rationale unfortunately doesn’t convince me otherwise. Not that it has to, this is all very subjective after all, but just offering up a counter opinion.
I gave the question a +1 because I, as previously stated, read it to be genuine curiosity. Maybe a smiley would’ve helped, I don’t know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
FWIW the ??!??! double trigraph as error processing is funny because of the meaning of ?! and various combinations of ? and !. It is funny and it has trigraphs. That’s the whole point.