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Subject: Category 10,  Topic 28
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Date: 5 Jan 90 16:04:32 GMT
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Category 10,  Topic 28
Message 105       Fri Dec 22, 1989
R.BERKEY [Robert]            at 07:47 PST

  To: Roedy Green

 > _       ( -- ) at compile time
 >         ( -- c ) at run time.
 >         Used to create character literals.  _ A compiles the
 >         constant 65.

I've fallen in love with  'A'  as another form of number literal, partly
because it's a syntax familiar from English.  Gene LeFave writes in GEnie
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