How Do You Pronounce "#define"?

Antony King antony at kestrel.inmos.co.uk
Fri Dec 8 22:28:35 AEST 1989


In article <850 at excelan.COM> jeffs at ka.excelan.com (Jeff Seideman) writes:
<In article <561 at junkyard.UUCP>, joe at junkyard.UUCP (Joseph Sarkes) writes:
<> In article <2438 at softway.oz>, stephenf at softway.oz (Stephen Frede) writes:
<> > >How should one pronounce "#define"?
<> 
<> very carefully.	on a serious note, # is a POUND sign, so maybe
<> pound define would do.
<
<That's funny!  One of my co-workers and I were just fighting over that
<this morning.  He says # is "SHARP" and I say # is "GRID".
<So it can be "pound define"
<or           "sharp define"
<or           "grid define"


Or how about "hash define".

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