Re: Off-topic: @

Paul Hoffman wrote:
> It probably seemed so simple when we started using it...
Since the original form was both "@" and " at " it wasn't all that 
simple, even then.  Having to parse several characters ahead, for 
detecting the mailbox/host separator, was a royal pain in those days.  
Not at all clean.

Of course, such cross-cultural problems are hardly restricted to netascii.

I can never remember they windows key sequence for generating the Euro 
symbol, and somehow E100 doesn't work all that well.

d/