Dollar sign ($) on foriegn keyboards? (prothon)

Adriano Varoli Piazza moranar at daleclick.com
Tue Apr 20 08:01:11 EDT 2004


El Mar 20 Abr 2004 03:22, Mark Hahn escribió:
> We are considering switching to the dollar sign ($) for self, instead
> of the period ( . ) we are using now in Prothon.  Ruby uses the
> at-sign (@) for self, but our new usage of self also includes
> replacing the period for some attribute references, as in obj$func()
> versus obj.func(), and too many programs treat that as an email
> address and screw it up.  Also the S in the symbol $ reminds one of
> the S in $elf.
>
> Can people from outside the U.S. tell me if typing the dollar sign
> often would be a problem in writing code?  Is it available and
> somewhat easy to type on international keyboards?

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