# Pitch: Fully-Qualified Lookups

**URL:** <https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-fully-qualified-lookups/54600>\
**Category:** Pitches\
**Created:** [January 13, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-fully-qualified-lookups/54600 "2022-01-13T18:41:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![michelf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/michelf/32/1180_2.png) [@michelf](https://forums.swift.org/u/michelf)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 4:18am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-fully-qualified-lookups/54600/25 "2022-01-14T04:18:02Z")

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Somewhere in the discussion referenced in the pitch, [I proposed `#.` as the root of everything](https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-fully-qualified-name-syntax/28482/14). This would produce:

```swift
#.Swift.dump(thing)
#.Self.isGreater(a, b)

```

I think it reads better than `_.`

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