Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: $ in identifiers -- poll Message-ID: <4758@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 19:09:36 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4758 Posted: Mon Dec 10 19:09:36 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 19:09:36 EST References: <3@aeolus.UUCP> <260@sftri.UUCP>, <3281@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 16 For what it's worth, the current ANSI C draft (12 Nov 1984) says that dollar signs aren't in C's vocabulary at all (except for the usual exemption for comments and strings), but adds the following in the "Common extensions" discussion in appendix E: E.4.4.1 Specialized identifiers Characters other than the underscore _, letters, and digits, that are not defined in the required source character set (such as the dollar sign $) may appear in an identifier. Note that this is identified as a "common extension", not as part of the standard proper, and "[is] not portable to all implementations". -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry