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John McCabe wrote:
> 
> >diddling with syntax makes nothing simpler
> >and usually annoys more people then it helps.
> 
> Possibly, but very few of the people I've worked with using Ada 95
> would be annoyed if the object.method syntax was included.

I've not seen it mentioned yet, but you really need to add
at least *three* new incantations:

 -o- To attract Java programmers you need "object.method()", and
make it dispatching.

  -o- To attract C++ programmers you need a non-dispatching
"object.method()", and a dispatching "access_to_object->method()".