Excerpts from Ray Rashif's message of 2010-06-17 01:03:17 +0200: > On 16 June 2010 06:52, Philipp Überbacher <hollunder@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> > On 2010-06-15 22:17 +0200, Giuseppe Zompatori wrote: > >> > > 2010/6/15 Folderol <folderol@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> > > > >> > > > 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. > > Funny you mention this, because I crapped out when I first took a look > at Lua and tried "!=" :O I found it strange too, but lua is strange in some ways.. It's mentioned here for example, bottom of the page: http://lua-users.org/wiki/NumbersTutorial -- Regards, Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
