Comments solicited re: quoted constants

[Martin P. Ibert]

In <16527 at haddock.ima.isc.com>, karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>$ But I did invent a neat hack that avoids the problem in a fairly clean
>  manner:   switch (s[0]*'\1\0'+s[1]*'\0\1') { case 'xy': ... }   should work
>  with any sane implementation of SCCs, regardless of byte size and sex.

No, it shouldn't. Siamese character constants in itself are evil and non-
portable. (I'm sure my compiler barfs at them.) My advice: Forget it.
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