Ahhhhh, I get it now. Yes, ambiguity is an issue. My son used to play an FPS that used scrolling text to report on what actions were happening. If you shot a p

Ahhhhh, I get it now. Yes, ambiguity is an issue. My son used to play an FPS that used scrolling text to report on what actions were happening. If you shot a player named, say, "gruseom", the scrolling text would read: You killed gruseom. One day I noticed that some wag had picked the username "yourownmotherhowcouldyou". Edit: You're basically using ' the way that @ migrated into general usage from Twitter. But the Lisp ' is so burned into my memory that it was surprisingly hard to see that. I do prefer your ' to @; it's not as heavy.