I know this is going pretty far back in the design process, but I was wondering why we're using curlies for hash subscripts, now that the % sticks around when you key it. Then curlies could only two things : Anonymous hash making and closure making. Maybe it's just too much culture shock?
I've always found PHP's brackets for hashes a bit more intuitive than perl's braces, that is, until I became so accustomed to Perl that C variables looked weird without a $ in front. Luke