# Allowing the object.method(args...) syntax as an alias for method(object, args ...)

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**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** question, design\
**Created:** [May 29, 2021, 5:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/allowing-the-object-method-args-syntax-as-an-alias-for-method-object-args/62051 "2021-05-29T17:09:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 1:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/allowing-the-object-method-args-syntax-as-an-alias-for-method-object-args/62051/148 "2022-10-07T01:29:59Z")

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Actually its [IntervalSets.jl](https://github.com/JuliaMath/IntervalSets.jl) (I always get this mixed up too)

And also more popular:  
[https://juliahub.com/ui/Packages/IntervalSets/2FHuv/0.7.3?page=2](https://juliahub.com/ui/Packages/IntervalSets/2FHuv/0.7.3?page=2)

@uniment that’s 5% of the ecosystem. Hopefully you can see the difference between pragmatic solutions that are not perfect but can be implemented and merged, and nice ideas that can’t happen in reality.

Also, mandatory:

> [@PSA: Julia is not at that stage of development anymore](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-julia-is-not-at-that-stage-of-development-anymore/44872):
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> You heard about this brand new exciting programming language called Julia and have some suggestions for how it should work. Wonderful! We’re happy to have you here and help you learn the language and listen to your ideas! However, please be aware that “new” is a relative term. Yes, Julia is newer than, say, C, which was first created in 1972 and standardized in 1989. It is not, however, new in the sense that it is still being freely designed and changed in arbitrary ways. Julia development start…

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