What you mean by the below phrase?
you might assume they behave in the same way, but that's not quite the case
They are a totally different thing, and each is used in different ways.
I guess I did not get the last section Dot notation - identifiers before variables what you wanted to say. That's why I can't puzzle what you mean.
Dinys Monvoisin
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