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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Numerical C
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Date: Sat, 21-Apr-84 16:02:49 EST
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> I don't think there are any (printable) ASCII characters left
> for C additions.

"@" isn't being used - and the claim that it's the "canonical" line kill
character doesn't make it less usable; the C preprocessor uses "#" out
the kazoo, but it's the "canonical" character erase character.  (Both of
which were tolerable choices on the local-echoing system they were
originally used on (Multics), but very poor choices on the remote-echoing
system they were moved to (UNIX) - DEC, at least, realized that with remote
echo you can do a lot better, and did!)  (Another point for 4.xBSD, which
supports DEC-style control character handling...)

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy