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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Unusual syntax
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"Steve Caddy" <dyn@m0ng.com> writes:

> I was even more amazed when the first version compiled and functioned in
> the same way as the second version.
>
> Has anyone come across this before?

It's documented in Annex J.  There are ASCII variants without the
characters {|}[\]~@ (a widely deployed system is videotex with
national code pages).