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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: stupid question regarding #
Date: 2000/03/15
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* Richard James Panturis Giuly <rgiuly@surfsouth.com>
| 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