>     Is / really an alpha character?  Doesn't it define what alpha
>characters are?

It defines what the alpha characters are by default.  ('/' is a non-alpha).
However, the user can set attributes on whatever characters he wants.  I
could make every single character be alpha, whitespace, quote and comment
all at once!

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