From: utzoo!decvax!cca!mullen@Nrl-Css@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: Naming Conventions for System Libraries Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3402 Posted: Tue Sep 21 18:49:59 1982 Received: Wed Sep 22 06:42:18 1982 From: mullen at Nrl-Css (Preston Mullen) Date: 17 Sep 1982 12:03:29-EDT The 4.1bsd C compiler allows '$' as a character in identifiers (it's a "letter"). The C preprocessor does too. I can't recall ever seeing this fact documented. P.S. Certain 4.1bsd programs, e.g. ctags and vgrind, do not know this and hence behave strangely when function names include '$'.