I'm in Greece and this keyboard has the $ over the 4 sign, and so does the
other computer in the room... I'm sure some countries don't have it though.
On 7/25/06, steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 25 July 2006 15:49, Levi Bard wrote:
> > > Here's one for the programmers among you. When the guys who design
> > > languages like PHP and Perl decide they're going to precede all
> > > variables with a dollar sign, what is the rest of the world supposed
> to
> > > do when writing code in these languages? I presume that foreign
> > > keyboards *don't* have dollar signs above the 4 key the way we do. So
> > > how do they handle writing code in languages like Perl and PHP?
> >
> > According to a quick poll, keyboards from other countries actually do
> > have the $ symbol, although not necessarily above the 4.
>
> Yes, overseas we still had $. Don't remember where as it was a long time
> ago.
>
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>
> Steve Szmidt
>
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