Using the Commercial At sign in C

[P. D. Guthrie]

In article <763 at dg_rtp.UUCP> meissner at 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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