in reply to Thoughts on replacing -> with .
Changing the operators like this was a bad idea for Perl 6 and is an even worse idea for Perl 5. pragma or nopragma.
Introducing two incompatible yet similar syntaxes for no good reason would confuse the hell out of everyone, including those poor guys coming from the languages that use the dot. Especially them. They would see examples using ->, they'd see examples using dots, they'd see examples using dot that means concatenation, ...
Bad proposal, no cookie!
Enoch was right!
Enjoy the last years of Rome.