We're changing it for the FUTURE USERS of the language. I'm not living forever. Someone else has to learn the language. And if that person is a beginner or comes from C++ or from Ruby or from Python or from Visual Basic, so be it, but the language should not be a burden to learn. What are you so scared of? Is Perl going to be difficult to "relearn" for you?

And if they are, as you say, syntactic sugar, why should it matter if they change? I prefer saccharine, anyway.

I don't mind the change. It took me a while when I was learning Perl to understand the whole sigil thing, and I think the change is the RIGHT change to make. And I like the idea of Perl doing something as common as method-calling in the same way that other languages do it.

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Jeff[japhy]Pinyan: Perl, regex, and perl hacker.
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