Scott7477,
Please note that the Apocalypses are considered historical documents. The Synopses now serve as the living design document where S = "spec" as well as "synopsis".

Indeed. BTW it is my understanding that the switch from -> to . has been planned since such a long time, nay I would say since the very first thoughts about Perl 6. Actually I'm of the school of thought that it won't matter much re perl acceptance from people coming from other languages, though there are tons of good reasons why it may be desirable. Just consider dereferentiotion on the implicit topic a.k.a .method(), or the compound operator .= which fits so nicely e.g. in many object constructions, as we have seen.