I have to go to a dinner now, so this is mainly a memo to myself: to implement @( and @), you need to move the case '(' and ) in gv_fetchpv to just above case '+', and turn on the relevant magic in mg.c. You may need to change the magic that's applied, since you probably don't want the "D" magic that $+ gives you. May even needs its own vtable entry. Anyway, dinner.