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From: meissner@dg_rtp.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Using the Commercial At sign in C
Message-ID: <763@dg_rtp.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Dec-86 08:42:59 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 17 08:42:59 1986
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In article <1499@brl-adm.ARPA> LINNDR%VUENGVAX.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu writes:
> Recently, a posting questioned the overloading of '+' for use as an
> operator for forcing order of evaluation. Since the commercial '@' sign
> is not otherwise used in C (because of it's former as a line kill char
> in Version X Unix?), maybe it would be a better choice. Because this ability
> is a new ability, maybe its inclusion warrants a new operator.

Neither "@", "`", or "$" can be introduced into the C standard because they
are not in all character sets (such as 7-bit European, EBCDIC?)
-- 
	Michael Meissner, Data General
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