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From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How Do You Pronounce "#define"?
Keywords: pound
Message-ID: <1454@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Dec 89 18:33:20 GMT
Reply-To: ken@aiai.UUCP (Ken Johnson)
Followup-To: comp.lang.c
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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>>How should one pronounce "#define"?
>>Is it "pound define" or "number define"?

I can't imagine that anyone doesn't know this already, but the UK Pound
sign is not # but a crossed-out script L .  therefore, talking about
`pound define', `the pound sign' etc.  is only going to confuse us here!



-- 
Ken Johnson, AI Applications Institute, 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1HN
E-mail ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk, phone 031-225 4464 extension 212
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