Why would I rather use dots? Because I came to Perl from C++ (believe it or not) where the "->" is used to access members and methods of a pointer to an object; the "." is used when you have the object itself. So when I came to Perl, and eventually used references, the arrow notation sort of made sense, since references are kinda like pointers. And the same goes for objects... but, wait... objects are references, so does that make them like pointers or objects?

I understand why Perl had to use something other than "." since it differentiated between string addition and numeric addition. However, every other language found some way to use "." for objects. Why not Perl? And it has. I like this new approach, because it is consistent with the approach taken by many other languages. And I like that idea. That is why I am in favor of it.

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