Re: differences between the gnuplot binary and its help

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 25 February 2010 13:04:32 Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> Ethan Merritt wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 February 2010 02:45:54 Shigeharu TAKENO wrote:
> 
> >> However, we can not use the character "$" as the part of the
> >> variable name.
> > 
> > You are right.   I will make this correction in the documentation.
> > 
> > I wonder why or when this changed?
> 
> I don't recall when, but the "why" is pretty obvious: we use $ as an 
> operator for 'call' arguments and as an abbreviation of column().

True.

I was thinking it might have had something to do with VMS support,
as VMS commonly uses $ as a prefix or separator in variable names.