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the problem here is a general langauage syntax one - you want to name a vairable somethignthat looks like a functioncall. this problem comes up in all programming languages. well mst of them anyhow. you wrote something that looks like def var x(i) as character. but variable names are nt allowed to have "(" or ")" characters in them and the compiler thinks this is a function call. Granted, the dynamic names do not follow the same rules and that is wrong. Like it or not, you have to follow the naming rules. and those should be the same for static and dynamic names. In this case, the error is that the dynamic rules are too lax and should have been more restrictive to match the static ones. If we make them more restrictive, no one will be happy.

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