Bizarre redirection failure

[John Chambers]

| Now you are getting into religion. Like the VI and EMACS religion, the
| shells are also religion among UNIX people.

Yeah, and my original question seems to have been lost in the
usual fashion.  Recall that I asked whether anyone knew why

| > | make test >& test.log &

produces no test.log output file, although the  make  seems
to run ok. Changing the '.' to '_' makes it work correctly.
This seems to happen with tcsh on  a  number  of  different
linux  releases,  but  it  doesn't  happen with tcsh on the
couple of FreeBSD systems where I have accounts.