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On Sun, Jul 3, 2016, at 07:22, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de>:
> > Am 03.07.16 um 13:01 schrieb Marko Rauhamaa:
> >> Scheme allows *any* characters whatsoever in identifiers.
> >
> > Parentheses?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Hint: Python allows *any* characters whatsoever in strings.

Being able to put any character in a symbol doesn't make those strings
identifiers, any more than passing them to getattr/setattr (or
__import__, something's __name__, etc) does in Python.