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Article #6934Re: Symbol for money.
From: Alt
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:46
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:46
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Barry Margolin wrote: > In article ?3A1B0A62.99F065A2@card.kyiv.net?, Alt ?alt@card.kyiv.net? wrote: > ?I mean programmers languages, several scripts, configuration files...Look attach > ?it's a configuration script from my Linux > ?where per 2200 symbols 27 are symbols of dollar. > ?And there is a lot of such files. > > Are you talking about the shell using dollar signs to indicate variable > references? This is a purely arbitrary character, just as DOS uses % in > batch files. Since it has nothing to do with money, or anything national, > why does it need to be changed to something less nationalistic? What > difference does it make? Not nationalistic, for you as for american it is such as you told,But for me it has a difference, because it is associated with foreign money, which oh :( much stronger as any european. It is additional advertisement of dollar. But not shell only has such symbol... Finally, "the dollar" placed on the key board, and it is single monetary symbol which correctly treats by any software. Also is an advertisement of US currency. > -- > Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net > Genuity, Burlington, MA > *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups. > Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.
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