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From: antony@kestrel.inmos.co.uk (Antony King)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How Do You Pronounce "#define"?
Message-ID: <3264@ganymede.inmos.co.uk>
Date: 8 Dec 89 11:28:35 GMT
References: <69516@psuecl.bitnet> <2438@softway.oz> <561@junkyard.UUCP> <850@excelan.COM>
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In article <850@excelan.COM> jeffs@ka.excelan.com (Jeff Seideman) writes:
<In article <561@junkyard.UUCP>, joe@junkyard.UUCP (Joseph Sarkes) writes:
<> In article <2438@softway.oz>, stephenf@softway.oz (Stephen Frede) writes:
<> > >How should one pronounce "#define"?
<> 
<> very carefully.	on a serious note, # is a POUND sign, so maybe
<> pound define would do.
<
<That's funny!  One of my co-workers and I were just fighting over that
<this morning.  He says # is "SHARP" and I say # is "GRID".
<So it can be "pound define"
<or           "sharp define"
<or           "grid define"


Or how about "hash define".

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