--- attriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ah.  OK, thanks :)  I had the basic idea, but I wasn't sure how to
> tell in perl which parameter was the indirect object :o

Right, "o" in your sentence above is the object. 

> if I'm following this right, it's the inferred object such that (in
> p5) if I called I.hit(him) the sub would receive @_ = I, him; yes?

Yep.

> and thus it would be hit (him) <~ I; in the current thread?

Yep.  

Henceforth, <~ shall be the "dragon operator", because (1) you're
draggin' the object back to the method; and (2) operator:<~ looks like
a chinese dragon.

Likewise, ~> shall be the "grin operator", because of the smiley in
"operator:~>".

=Austin

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