Incidentally, app.arc creates a unique "fail" global variable in this way. (Eeeeeaaaaaargh, never use asterisks in text. The word "fail" has an asterisk at the end. Is there a way to escape asterisks?)
; (= fail* (uniq))
(def fail* ()) ; coudn't possibly come back from a form
You've even italicized the reply button. :-p I think the only way to "escape" an asterisk is to put whitespace after it: If you put a space at the end of "fail* ", presto. You could also subtly tweak your style in order to write fail* without quotation marks or other punctuation afterward. But yeah, escaping would be nice.
