John Siracusa wrote:

>  Wow, that..er...how did I miss that?  It looks a lot like running an
>  executable in the current dir instead of letting the shell search its path.

That's the mnemonic, yes. Call this functionality relative to the current 
"location" (i.e. invocant).


>  Was this syntax discussed on a mailing list or
>  elsewhere? 

Both on the mailing list and within @Larry.


>  I really liked plain old .foo(), 

We felt the ambiguity and change-of-semantics within topicalizers made it 
unacceptable.


>  but I guess I'll just use
>  explicit invocants and look like an old fuddy duddy... :)

That's fine, Gramps! ;-)


>  (also, at least it's not "/." <shudder> ;)

<grin> 

Damian