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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How Do You Pronounce "#define"?
Message-ID: <11044@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 89 00:32:25 GMT
References: <1989Dec4.041559.9045@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <1989Dec4.041559.9045@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, by dks@shumv1.uucp (D. K. Smith):

"Pound-define", of course.

> Did we forget "splat"?  That is, in the same context as the "!"
> is called "bang".

This is not a splat: #
This is a splat, a.k.a. "star": *