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From: res@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Rich Strebendt @ AT&T Information Systems - Indian Hill West; formerly)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: smail pronounciation (or in this case '#')
Message-ID: <1895@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Date: Mon, 9-Mar-87 22:01:06 EST
Article-I.D.: ihlpl.1895
Posted: Mon Mar  9 22:01:06 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 10-Mar-87 21:49:44 EST
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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Summary: Not a musician in the bunch!!!

In response to:

> #> I always pronunce the '#' sign as a 'pound' sign - that is one of its
> #> meanings and it is quicker to say than 'number' - besides, who ever
> #> heard of 'number-define (== #define) - everyone here says 'pound-define'.
> # Hmmmmm.... at the risk of seeming pedantic (but why should that bother me,
> # no-one else seems TOO worried :-), here in the UK, where it actually matters
> # how we represent our currency, a `#' is most definitely NOT a `pound' sign.
> #   [...]
> # The confusion probably arises from the fact that the UK version of the ASCII
> # character set often has `#' replaced by a pound sign (as do UK keyboards).
> In my sordid youth in the American midwest I once learned '#' as 'pound sign'
> -- as in "a 10# sack of potatoes" (about 5Kg, that is).  I can't relate that
> to Lire, Sestertii, and Denarii (at the time, 10# of potatoes cost less than
> a buck :-).

Gads, there doesn't appear to be a musical programmer in the bunch!!

I thought EVERYONE knew that "#" is pronounced "sharp" !!!!!

Pound, indeed.  Next some of you would have us writing 

	lb include <stdio.h>
and 

	lbdefine	MAX	100

What is the world coming to???			:-)

					Rich Strebendt
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