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NAME

Acme::MetaSyntactic::octothorpe - The octothorpe theme

DESCRIPTION

Names for the # symbol.

See http://www.sigtel.com/tel_tech_octothorpe.html about how the name octothorpe was created. See also http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-oct1.htm for other stories.

If you know another name for # that is not included in this list, please send it to me, with a reference to back up your claim. Thanks.

CONTRIBUTOR

Philippe "BooK" Bruhat, inspired by David Landgren's presentation of Acme::DonMartin.

Introduced in version 0.32, published on July 25, 2005.

SEE ALSO

Acme::MetaSyntactic, Acme::MetaSyntactic::List.