Why are @, `, and $ not used in C?

Shankar Unni shankar at hpclscu.HP.COM
Sat Sep 23 08:55:41 AEST 1989


> As I understand it, the reason that @ was not used instead of * for
> indirection was that @ was the UNIX line kill character.

Hmmm? How about "#" (the "classic" erase character)?
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Shankar.



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