Re: y/rple/yma/ (was: LALR (was Re: Working Group Proposal))

<[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>> 	$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.

One reason for use of '.' is mapping Win32's COM names in a way that 
makes sense to the would-be users. 
The _documented_ interfaces use a . notation 

As such the '.' might only have this meaning if left operand was 
an object... but we are getting into details again.

-- 
Nick Ing-Simmons