I had a whole lot of stuff typed but really it boils down to something simple. We need at least one symbol within the common character set that we can use as a syntactic element not related to a typical character - a return token. I’d like to go back to having another for the assignment, given my druthers. If we use the same symbol/character for both the return token and in general names then I think we are likely to get confused at some point and Murphy requires that it will be during some really inconvenient time.
So, all in all, I suggest not using ^ in general names.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Useful Latin Phrases:- Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem! = Stand aside plebians! I am on imperial business.