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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Peculiarities of "of" syntax
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"Alejandro R. Mosteo" <amosteo@unizar.es> writes:

> So the question would be, with a correct array, why a name is required
> instead of an expression, or why a qualified expression is good enough
> but an unambiguous plain expression is not.

The real question is, why are "name" and "expression" distinguished at
all in the syntax?  You're right: there's really no good reason
for this.  (Not specific to for/of.)

- Bob