Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)

[Derek Lee-Wo]

In article <18.24657354 at metnet.FIDONET.ORG> Chris.Maidt at p8.f30.n147.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Chris Maidt) writes:
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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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