My 2¢ on this topic are solely about syntax: • I actually like the @ sigil: It is somewhat mnemonic: @age is like roughly "at the age field..." • The module import hacks are horrid for something so important to the evolution of the language. And it makes me cringe for every writer of a programmer tool in the future! • I disagree with Edward's assessment: I find foo^.bar.baz.quux awful because a) I dislike the ^. and the copious lens operators, b) I dislike the attempt to mimic member access in other languages. • To amplify the second point, I see little value in attempting to mimic the dot of other languages. So what if the lens (or lens-like-thing) composition operator is something else? For heaven's sake, why not double slash? @bar // @baz // @quux Or perhaps @bar |> @baz |> @quux Or even (I'm a Unicode nut) @bar ⊢ @baz ⊢ @quux — If the dot implies we can't have a data type and type changing (thanks to Category) then skip it and using something else that will let us have a data type and type changing.