From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: stupid question regarding # Date: 2000/03/15 Message-ID: <3162108567548247@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 597763781 References: <38CEE08C.D513DEE1@surfsouth.com> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 953121972 7327 195.0.192.66 (15 Mar 2000 12:06:12 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 8800 8879; fax: +47 8800 8601; http://www.naggum.no User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Mar 2000 12:06:12 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Richard James Panturis Giuly | In the context of lisp, what is the pronunciation of the # symbol? That | is, what do you call it? in the ANSI standard, it is called "number sign", which is the official nomenclature of the standards bodies, or "sharpsign". #:Erik