On Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 10:54:07 PM UTC+12, olaf wrote:

> No reason given why a dot should be part of a word.

The Korn shell, ksh, has a syntax using dots; some kind of vaguely OO 
attributes.

$ x=bob
$ x.y=carol

A lot of ksh-isms found their way into POSIX, but not this one I think.  Does 
anyone still use ksh?

Regards, John Little

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