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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Something to use '$' for
Message-ID: <4780@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 17:22:27 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 13 17:22:27 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 17:22:27 EST
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Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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> I know!   We are wanting something that says "comment till end of line"
> but all the suggestions so far go down in flames because that character
> is already in use.  Is '$' really not used?  Could '$$' be used...

If you must have a comment-to-EOL convention (great stuff, but it may be
a bit late to add it to C), the character(s) used to mark it preferably
should be unshifted and near the home row.  "//" comes much closer to
this than "$$".

> ... (Are there any systems where @ 
> couldn't be used?)

Some of my reactionary :-) friends still use @ as line kill...
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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