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Ok so please explain "plain" in your own wording.

Cheers Rolf
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Re^6: Thx, St. Larry, for the Beauty of Sigils
by shmem (Chancellor) on Jul 27, 2019 at 14:35 UTC

    No, since you already got the meaning.

    perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'
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      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

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        sigh... "plain variables" are "named variables". 

        $var  = "Hello world!";        # \
@ary  = qw(foo bar baz);       # - plain
%hash = qw(foo 1 bar 2 baz 3); # /

$sref = \$var;  # \
$aref = \@ary;  # - references
$href = \%hash; # /

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        References which aren't references of plain (or named) variables are anonymous.

        E.g. we speak of $ary = [] as of an anonymous array which happens to be stored in the plain (or named) scalar variable $ary, be that stored in a symbol table or a pad.

        perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'
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