[LAU] 24-bit, 24 bit, 24bit and oh how it hz

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from Folderol's message of 2010-06-16 00:43:44 +0200:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:36:36 +0200
> Andre Majorel <aym-psd at teaser.fr> wrote:
> 
> > On 2010-06-15 22:17 +0200, Giuseppe Zompatori wrote:
> > > 2010/6/15 Folderol <folderol at ukfsn.org>:
> > >
> > > > How about 24~96 ?
> > >
> > > "~" is a bash alias for $HOME.
> > 
> > Only at the beginning of a word. (And for all Bourne-type shells,
> > not just Bash.)
> 
> Although this is true, one reason I suggested this is (as several
> pointed out) this is only true at the beginning of the word after a
> limited number of commands, and as far as I'm aware has no
> significance at all anywhere else or in any other language on any OS.
> Most of the other characters suggested can have specific meaning when
> inside a word.
> 
> Also, the visual effect of the character looks much more meaningful
> than the only other 'safe' character I can think of... the underscore.

~= has the meaning of not equal in lua, but not relevant here I
guess.
-- 
Regards,
Philipp

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