Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucuxc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!hamilton From: hamilton@uiucuxc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Something to use '$' for Message-ID: <21000018@uiucuxc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 23:07:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucuxc.21000018 Posted: Fri Dec 14 23:07:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 05:03:06 EST References: <375@ukma.UUCP> Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #R:ukma:-37500:uiucuxc:21000018:000:515 Nf-From: uiucuxc!hamilton Dec 14 22:07:00 1984 > Then the IBM PL/1-F compiler >I used a few years ago accepted # as part of a symbol name, so assumably >the linker takes # in a symbol.) (Are there any systems where @ >couldn't be used?) pl/1 allows '@' as part of an identifier. i used to prefix all my pl/1 pointer variables that way. used to use '#' as well: "#things" as a counter, "thing#" as an index, and "#" as a generic counter/index instead of "i". wayne ({decvax,ucbvax}!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!)hamilton