[Tutor] TOT: what does the "@" operator mean?

[Gregor Lingl]

Marc Tompkins schrieb:
> By the way, (totally off-topic, of course, my apologies): what do all
> y'all call the "@" operator?  Here in the States, we call it the
> "at-sign", which I find boring; I believe "sleepycat" is a
> Scandinavian thing (I picked it up in some long-forgotten article);
> some Russians refer to it as собака ("sobaka", dog) - again because it
> looks like an animal with its tail curled up.
>
>   
In German we call it 'Klammeraffe' - which means 'spider monkey':
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_monkey
Don't know why, perhaps also because of it's long tail
Regards,
Gregor