note TimToady We've also put in an escape hatch for when you really need whitespace there. A subscript or argument list can be detached if you put a dot in front of it: <code> print .($bar) %foo .{'bar'} @abc .[123] </code> In theory, we could require no whitespace before <code>++</code> too, but we don't actually need to unless someone defines a binary operator <code>++</code>, whereupon the correct response is to shoot them. 345777 346363