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		kps on Jan 28, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C++ Modules Might Be Dead-On-Arrival Use ‘−’ for subtraction, allow ‘–’ and ‘‐’ in identifiers, and report an error for ‘-’.

mort96 on Jan 28, 2019 [–]

Sure, just make everyone replace their keyboard with one which has two `-` buttons and make everyone understand why they need two buttons for something which looks like the same letter and you can safely use – for one thing and — for the other.

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