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by tbirdz 4398 days ago
Very sneaky. For anyone else wondering why this works, look up trigraphs.
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And after looking it up, you better then realise that if you actually ever use them in production code you better have a really good reason, or your colleagues will forever curse your name..

I think the above is probably the first time I've seen trigraphs used in the last 20 years or so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraphs_and_trigraphs#C

sorry for spoiling:

"??/" got replaced by "\"