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From: rbr4@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Roland Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Why are @, `, and $ not used in C?
Keywords: This is a historic question
Message-ID: <3068@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 89 13:16:15 GMT
References: <509.nlhp3@oracle.nl> <19211@gatech.edu>
Reply-To: rbr4@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Roland Roberts)
Organization: University of Rochester
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In article <509.nlhp3@oracle.nl> bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig) writes: 
>...A quick glance on my keyboard shows three characters, @, `, and $
>that cannot be used in C outside of strings.  Is there any historic
>reason for that?

In article <19211@gatech.edu> ken@gatech.UUCP (Ken Seefried III) writes:
>...DEC VMS C and (I think) CDC NOS/VE C both use $ in identifiers....
>Also...I believe the SunOS 3.x C compilers accept $ in identifiers,

The GNU C compiler also accepts $ in identifiers.

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