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From: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (P. D. Guthrie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Using the Commercial At sign in C
Message-ID: <1086@ihdev.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 17:49:31 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 18 17:49:31 1986
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In article <763@dg_rtp.UUCP> meissner@dg_rtp.UUCP (Michael Meissner) writes:
>Neither "@", "`", or "$" can be introduced into the C standard because they
>are not in all character sets (such as 7-bit European, EBCDIC?)

'`' (Back-tick) already is used in many C's for BCD.  This did not make
it into the standard, and is actually undocumented in most C compilers
(BSD 4.1 has it I believe). 

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Paul Guthrie
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