> Is there a more-common word/term for it (other than
> "tic-tac-toe thingie" or "number sign", neither one of which
> is really a name for it?) It's not technically a "sharp",
> which is rendered slightly differently (if you want to be
> technically precise). I suppose some call it a "hash", but
> that's more of a description than a name for it.
The ones I hear commonly are hash, hash mark, hash symbol, pound,
pound sign, number, and number sign. Octothorpe is far more
interesting, though for me the word elicits impressions of some
eight legged creature...
And yeah, it's not too pendantic to claim that # is not a sharp...
as b is not a flat, though C#ers might disagree :).
> Then again, without some calling it a "hash", one of my all-time
> favorite programming terms wouldn't exist: "shebang line".
All this talk reminds me of the waka waka bang splat poems. I
know I've seen one with the shabang.
~ Daniel
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