Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdaisy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watdaisy!gjerawlins From: gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: question about names for symbols Message-ID: <7333@watdaisy.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 02:22:16 EDT Article-I.D.: watdaisy.7333 Posted: Thu Jun 27 02:22:16 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 07:14:17 EDT References: <2041@iddic.UUCP> Reply-To: gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins) Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 31 Summary: In article <2041@iddic.UUCP> rick@iddic.UUCP (Rick Coates) writes: >What names are in use for the non-alpha characters in the ASCII code? Good question! Surprisingly, no one i know has a reference for this (can anyone from Bureau of Standards help out?). My names for these symbols depend on occasion (programming in Pascal vs C or the shell or in conversation or on the phone or while reading) and (apparently) on where i first saw them used (or pronounced). I remember seeing a poem in OMNI a while ago (yes, i read OMNI) which used the symbol "#"; it was in the form of a puzzle where you had to get all the names (there were 8) for this symbol. My personal names are: ! - "bang"/"exclam"/"exclamation point" ~ - "tilde"/"twiddle" ` - "back quote" ' - "single quote" " - "double quote" \ - "back slash" | - "pipe" # - "hash"/"number"/"pound" @ - "at" ^ - "up arrow"/"caret"/"pointer" & - "and"/"ampersand" * - "star"/"asterisk"/"times" < - "less than"/"pointy brackets" { - "curly brackets"/"braces" [ - "hard brackets" ( - "brackets" -- Gregory J.E. Rawlins, Department of Computer Science, U. Waterloo {allegra|clyde|linus|inhp4|decvax}!watmath!watdaisy!gjerawlins