> The problem with disallowing special characters is that you "close the > door". Software writers will then write software that depends on them > not being there (or not caring which is probably the common case > today). If we later find out that - for whatever reasons - we want to > use one of those chars this will become extremely difficult, as it > will cause trouble at many places in existing software. > This is an instance of what is called The Expression Problem.
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