. period for Class Syntax references

Hi all. I don't know if this has been implemented yet. Is it possible to make the '.' period character act place of the '->' character pair in class references, without conflicting with the '.' concatenation character? Possibly would have to implement the two styles of referencing to allow for backward compatibility? So, instead of writing: $this->my_var, one could then write $this.my_var, which would be alot more in common with other OOP languages. Maybe it's me, but I find it alot easier to read and pronounce '$this.my_var' == $this dot my_var, than something like '$this->my_var' == $this right-arrow my_var Or, even some other single character that may be used instead of the '->' pair. Any suggestions please? Regards - Keith Roberts http://www.karsites.net/