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		pjmlp on Jan 28, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C++ Modules Might Be Dead-On-Arrival Trigraphs are gone, but it took a while to win IBM representatives over it

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I don't think they were ever really won over, I think their concerns were heard and they begrudgingly acquiesced rather than vote down C++17.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n421...

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