Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!ken From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Why are @, `, and $ not used in C? Keywords: This is a historic question Message-ID: <928@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: 23 Sep 89 20:55:03 GMT References: <509.nlhp3@oracle.nl> <19211@gatech.edu> <3068@ur-cc.UUCP> <1596@l.cc.purdue.edu> <408@illusion.UUCP> Reply-To: ken@aiai.UUCP (Ken Johnson) Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Lines: 13 > Why are @, `, and $ not used in C? I understand that 3 free Ascii codes were left so as to allow C to be ported into a language with a 29-letter alphabet. Which one I can't imagine. -- Ken Johnson, AI Applications Institute, 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1HN E-mail ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk, phone 031-225 4464 extension 212 `I have read your article, Mr. Johnson, and I am no wiser than when I started.' -- `Possibly not, sir, but far better informed.'