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the only flag we care about is FNAME The specification does not define an encoding for the file name. Different file systems may impose restrictions on certain names, so FNAME should not be used.

He has some good points. This one is from a different paper (Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass):

Designers had ignored both the issue of efficiency and that a language serves the human reader, not just the automatic parser. If a language poses difficulties to parsers, it surely also poses difficulties for the human reader. Many languages would be clearer and cleaner had their designers been forced to use a simple parsing method.