Symbol pronunciation (Re: awk comments)

Pete Holsberg pjh at mccc.edu
Thu May 2 01:28:41 AEST 1991


In article <1991Apr30.085700.10664 at grep.co.uk> vic at grep.co.uk (Victor Gavin) writes:
=In article <3896 at dali> icsu7039 at attila.cs.montana.edu (Spannring) writes:
=>>In article <6188 at flint4.UUCP>, tang at motcid.UUCP (Sam D. Tang) writes:
=>> How does one add comments to an awk program?
=>You use the pound sign (#) for a comment.
=
=This hasn't been mentioned for a while so thought I'd resurrect it.
=
=The # has several ``names''. Octothorpe, pound, mesh, hash are just a few.

Isn't "sharp" pretty universal?  "Hash" does nothing for me.  ;-)

Pete
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