Just think of how much this is going to cost in terms of Perl Golf characters. At the same time, though, aren't they running out of punctuation-type character operators found on the regular 104-key keyboard?

It is odd that period is used as an operator at all, really. Syntax wise, the fact that a scalar is both a string and a number complicates things somewhat. Still, why not something more abstract? Here's some useless ideas: 
$foo = $bar:$nuu;    # Currently meaningless
$foo = $bar'$nu;     # Ye-olde ' operator?
$foo = $bar<->$nu;   # Maybe?
$foo = $bar$nu;      # Or nothing at all?
$foo = $bar $nu;     # Implied?
$foo = $bar~$nu;     # Getting kind of crazy with overloading

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Still, this "space underscore space" stuff smells of Python-like schenannigans.

I'm half-inclined to start a campaign to develop an alternative.

In reply to Re^3: Noble DOT vs the Allmighty ARROW by tadman
in thread Noble DOT vs the Allmighty ARROW by BUU

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