Using the Commercial At sign in C

P. D. Guthrie pdg at ihdev.UUCP
Fri Dec 19 08:49:31 AEST 1986


In article <763 at dg_rtp.UUCP> meissner at dg_rtp.UUCP (Michael Meissner) writes:
>Neither "@", "`", or "$" can be introduced into the C standard because they
>are not in all character sets (such as 7-bit European, EBCDIC?)

'`' (Back-tick) already is used in many C's for BCD.  This did not make
it into the standard, and is actually undocumented in most C compilers
(BSD 4.1 has it I believe). 

-- 

Paul Guthrie
ihnp4!ihdev!pdg			This Brain left intentionally blank.



More information about the Comp.lang.c mailing list