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[totient]

Said to one of my assistant con-chairs:

If this were an actual emergency, I would $course-of-action. However, this is not an emergency, this is a Teachable Moment.

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[thatwesguy.livejournal.com]

So since there is no backslash there, I assume that you did not say "dollar course of action" but rather "(an actual course of action that is not relevant to the post itself)".

True?

(See, I just got this quasi-Mach box and suddenly what little Unix I have ever known is flooding back. It's kind of weird, but very very fun.)

[palmwiz.livejournal.com]

True. Though I should have used StudlyCaps or underscores as the - character isn't legal in that context.

[thatwesguy.livejournal.com]

Some days, you learn *two* new things.

Thanks!