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From: derek@hsi.UUCP (Derek Lee-Wo)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)
Message-ID: <436@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 13:46:01 GMT
References: <18.24657354@metnet.FIDONET.ORG>
Reply-To: derek@hsi86.UUCP (Derek Lee-Wo)
Organization: Health Systems Intl., New Haven, CT
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In article <18.24657354@metnet.FIDONET.ORG> Chris.Maidt@p8.f30.n147.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Chris Maidt) writes:
- RD>              |  |
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- RD> This is often mislabelled as "pound sign", "number sign", "crosshatch",
- RD> "hash", etc.
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-It is commonly refered to as an octathorpe (sp). 
       
I would hate to be reading my code and have to say 'octathorpe include' whenever
I was reading '#include'
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