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Article #6935Re: Symbol for money.
From: Alt
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:57
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:57
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Ok, laugh at me.... But seriously, Euro could not be implemented there.. And if you start to laugh, listen this: Old Woman to Hippie: -Excuse me, young girl, .. H: - I am not a girl, indeed. OW: - Shut up, stupid, it is not a subject to declare it such. Same with a Euro. How many US cents costs one Euro ??? It is less than in previous month per ... ??? Funny ? :-) Rainer Joswig wrote: > In article ?u5JS5.19$hD2.797@burlma1-snr2?, Barry Margolin > ?barmar@genuity.net? 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? > > It should be possible to come up with a modified shell that > uses the Euro character (the Euro character denotes the new > European currency and has been introduced into character sets > lately - � is option-shift-d on my Mac) instead. :-) > > This is one area where I like Common Lisp. The Common Lisp > standard does not use the dollar sign AFAIK for any > special purposes. So Common Lisp is a "non-imperialistic" programming > language. Implementations may differ, though. ;-) The > ANSI standard should be updated though to include the Euro > character. ;-) > > -- > Rainer Joswig, Hamburg, Germany > Email: mailto:joswig@corporate-world.lisp.de > Web: http://corporate-world.lisp.de/
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