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>> He's also said that it's likely that dots will be allowed for indirect >> object notation: >> >> $foo.method(); >> >> same as >> >> $foo->method(); >Urg. Those are things I can't see the benefits of. It doesn't make >the syntax any less complicated. It just creates another "there is >more than one way to do it". But with the only benefit a keystroke. >It just adds to the perceived problem of Perl being hard. It's a perennial *Active*State* request. They want it so they can simplify their documentation for *Micro*Soft* interfaces, since "everybody else" uses dots. --tom