SOURCE Daryle Walker wrote:

>  On 8/18/05 4:57 AM, "Jonathan Wakely" <cow@[...].uk> wrote:
>  
>  > postgresql/connect.cpp accidentally uses the <:: trigraph in the
>  > typedefs at the top of the file.  You need a space before the template
>  > args to avoid that.
>  
>  I think you mean the "<:" digraph.  It represents the "[" (opening square
>  bracket) character.  The official term is "alternative token" (see section
>  2.5 of the standard), because some of the tokens have more than two
>  characters.  (These include the bitwise and Boolean word operators, i.e.
>  "and".)  They're considered after the preprocessor (phase 3 of section 2.1),
>  and trigraphs are done earlier than that (in phase 1).

Yep, you're absolutely right -- thanks.

I didn't pay a lot of attention to the exact compiler diagnostic, just added
a space and got on with it.

jon


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