Thus it was written in the epistle of Erik Lechak,
> 
> I guess my biggest complaint was that underscore would be the only single
> character operator that would be in danger of  being lumped into the variable
> name.  I forgot about  x .  I use it all the time.  If  x  has that
> constraint why not the underscore.  

Because there is conceptual dissonance between the purpose and the look.  Why
should the thing which glues strings together require spaces around it?

Ted
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                                 | ecstatically.

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