> As to the inspring issue about using [] for hashes, I say go for it if > (and only if) it is a signifigant improvement for the parser.
I would imagine it's not. The braces are one of the things that make Perl "feel" like Perl. My original post that inspired this gigantic discussion was simply a probing as to "why?" as opposed to "we should." I got my answer in many, many different ways, so I'm satisfied :). Luke