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So taking a name and applying the reverse() operation on it yields a name? You can concatenate the names of two people together and that becomes a valid identifier for the two-person tuple?

Strings have behaviors that names don't, and names have domain-specific meaning that strings don't. An entire class of bugs can be eliminated if we stop treating people's names as sequences of characters enclosed in quotes.



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