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Excerpts from Ray Rashif's message of 2010-06-17 01:03:17 +0200:

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> On 16 June 2010 06:52, Philipp Überbacher  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  wrote:

> >>

> >> > On 2010-06-15 22:17 +0200, Giuseppe Zompatori wrote:

> >> > > 2010/6/15 Folderol :

> >> > >

> >> > > > 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

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Regards,

Philipp
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