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IMHO, . can DWIM in most cases even if it's both object deref _and_ concat--without paying any attention to whitespace. Let's think about this for a minute. What are the common cases for use of concat? $a."b"; "a".$b; $a.$b; a.$b; $a.b; a.b; The first two are obviously concat, since that code makes absolutely no sense as an object deref. Unless we decide that objects can contain scalars and to access them you must prefix their name with $, the middle pair can't be object calls, so they're concat. The last two, however, are ambiguous. How can we figure out what they mean? Two possibilities: 1) we define a cc (or something like that--I prefer j, since it's shorter) operator that _always_ means concat, or 2) when you mean "call a function called b", you have to say &b; Alternately, we can overload . to do a deref on (blessed?) references, and concat otherwise. Does any of that make sense? Or should I be returned to my straightjacket? :^) --Brent Dax brentdax1@earthlink.netThread Next