I'm not so sure about simplification. All this syntactic sugar will make the language great for Obfuscated-E contests. _________________________ Alan Karp Principal Scientist Decision Technology Department Hewlett-Packard Laboratories MS 1U-2 1501 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 (650) 857-3967, fax (650) 857-6278 https://ecardfile.com/id/Alan_Karp http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Alan_Karp/