Subject: Re: stupid question regarding #
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 2000/03/15
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3162108567548247@naggum.no>

* Richard James Panturis Giuly <rgiuly@surfsouth.com>
| In the context of lisp, what is the pronunciation of the # symbol?  That
| is, what do you call it?

  in the ANSI standard, it is called "number sign", which is the official
  nomenclature of the standards bodies, or "sharpsign".

#:Erik