syntax questions

Greetings,

A couple questions w.r.t. syntax:

- It seems the lexer doesn't like access on the 'class' member (e.g.
the _expression_ "Employee.class" yields the error "identifier expected
but 'class' found"). In my case this is an annoyance because a tool I'm
using (a lightweight ORM) requires the class name to be mentioned as
part of it's required metadata. Is this a bug or intended behavior?

- I'd love to see a builtin tuple syntax -- e.g. (x,y,z) instead of
Tuple3(x,y,z) for [de]constructors -- is that a remote possibility? As
an ML user, the former feels quite a bit more elegant... but I guess
Scala's probably not targeting my demographic quite as heavily, as say,
Java users ;-)

Cheers,
Jason