From: Patrick K. O'Brien [mailto:pobrien@orbtech.com]

Definitely. And habit. Since I program mostly in Python I'm used to {} meaning dictionary and I'm used to typing parens everywhere

In that case you should be happy. ${} is using a dictionary as its source ... Actually, for consistency, it should probably be $[] to suggest accessing a dictionary element. But I won't go down that path ;) Tim Delaney