Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Change calls like "__ 'foo'" to "__('foo')" so the Perl compiler > doesn't have to guess that "__" is a function. This makes the code > more readable. Agreed. Ruby has something similar: foo arg1, arg2 foo(arg1, arg2) As a C programmer I find the former a quirk of the language, and much harder to read. If it's a function call, present it as such. -- Felipe Contreras