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

[Ole Henning Jensen]

Marc Tompkins wrote:
> 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)

Continuing of the OT lane
I'm not sure that "sleepycat" is scandinavien, I'm Danish myself and to 
my knowledge in both Denmark and Sweden the at-sign is called "snabel-a" 
which translates to "trunk-a" (a trunk as on an elefant)
And in Norwegian I belive to be "krølle-alfa" translated means "curly-alpha"