>Iannis Zannos wrote:
>> 
>> I wrote:
>> > I like it. (Incidentally, I know of only one other language that
>> > exploits @ being pronounced as "at".)
>> 
>> Which language do you have in mind?
>
>Eiffel. Though the usage of @ for indexing is just a minor aspect of it.

Actually Pascal employs this @ at as well.  Although the meaning is more like 
"stored at" or "addressed at" (i.e. it returns a pointer to the variable).