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Subject: Re: Alias named '='
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On 08/10/17 11:37 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
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> Suggest that you use something other than '=' as the first character.
Yeah, it astonishes me that such a thing would even be attempted or that 
it could possibly work anyway.   There must be characters that are 
preserved for symbolic use only.