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

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/allowing-the-object-method-args-syntax-as-an-alias-for-method-object-args/62051>\
**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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**Author:** ![gianmariomanca](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gianmariomanca/32/25597_2.png) [@gianmariomanca](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gianmariomanca)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/allowing-the-object-method-args-syntax-as-an-alias-for-method-object-args/62051/89 "2021-06-23T17:57:02Z")

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@pdeffebach yes overloading getproperty seems interesting, but it leaves out methods, or maybe not …

 ![Screen Shot 2021-06-23 at 10.49.34 AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/d/e/ded5cba43ba7a54ce857b1e3f8c570856c9462de.png)

I don’t want to scare anybody with the above example 🙂  
(see the tab completion in Pluto in the image)

but if you can add self-referencing functions to the instance of a struct, why can’t you have it done automatically at the struct definition level?

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