Using the Commercial At sign in C

[Michael Meissner]

In article <1499 at brl-adm.ARPA> LINNDR%VUENGVAX.BITNET at wiscvm.wisc.edu writes:
> Recently, a posting questioned the overloading of '+' for use as an
> operator for forcing order of evaluation. Since the commercial '@' sign
> is not otherwise used in C (because of it's former as a line kill char
> in Version X Unix?), maybe it would be a better choice. Because this ability
> is a new ability, maybe its inclusion warrants a new operator.

Neither "@", "`", or "$" can be introduced into the C standard because they
are not in all character sets (such as 7-bit European, EBCDIC?)
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	Michael Meissner, Data General
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