[smegsicle]

the "you name it" idiom in english is usually used to mean "anything you want", as in "you pick it"- so your first sentence reads like "native symbols are useful for anything, because (as everyone knows) symbolic programming is useful for anything"

i think the idiom you were going for was perhaps "you guessed it" or "you called it", as if poking fun at how, obviously, native symbols are helpful for symbolic programming, because it's the same word

[ktpsns]

Thanks for the tip! In fact I'm not a native speaker and this was some kind of "false friend" from the German "du sagst es" (="you say it") :-)