# What's your experience with using % for accessing object members?

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**Category:** Language enhancement\
**Created:** [October 15, 2023, 10:25pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/whats-your-experience-with-using-for-accessing-object-members/6642 "2023-10-15T22:25:10Z")\
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@aerosayan that’s a long standing issue that I also have with Fortran. I created an issue with many ideas here:

- [Idea: Support dot (`.`) as an alternative to the `%` operator (#84) · Issues · lfortran / lfortran · GitLab](https://gitlab.com/lfortran/lfortran/-/issues/84) (we since moved [the issue](https://github.com/lfortran/lfortran/issues/199) to GitHub).

Some prior discussion at Discourse [here](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/what-are-your-favorite-and-least-favorite-things-about-fortran/27/9) and [here](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/what-are-your-favorite-and-least-favorite-things-about-fortran/27/5).

You are bringing some other good ideas to use either `->` or `::` both of which I also feel are more readable.

Now when LFortran has a full parser (beta quality), we can try some of these ideas and see if it is possible to implement it robustly. I think just using `.` is the best, but it’s a bit tricky to implement, see the issue.

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