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From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Why are @, `, and $ not used in C?
Keywords: This is a historic question
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Date: 20 Sep 89 13:15:43 GMT
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As I understand it, the reason that @ was not used instead of * for
indirection was that @ was the UNIX line kill character.
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Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
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