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in thread Thx, St. Larry, for the Beauty of Sigils

I like sigils, probably also because my first language was BASIC.

But I still think they make code more readable, kind of Hungarian Notation

Parsing non sigil languages is hard without syntax highlighting. *

And isn't readability part of the Zen(terfold) of Python? ;)

But some things are unfortunately solved in Perl 5.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

*) On a side note: I remember having problems with English too, where the same word can sometimes be a verb, adjective and noun, where other languages have grammatical suffices.

Headlines in the English newspapers are still a riddle...

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Re^4: Thx, St. Larry, for the Beauty of Sigils
by bliako (Abbot) on Jul 29, 2019 at 23:15 UTC
      > nother story about the Hungarian_Notation:

      LOL, interesting read. :)

      I earned my fist hacker coins with 68000 Assembler, but I seem to remember our identifiers were allowed to be longer on the Atari-ST.

      No wonder no one ever heard of the Mcntsh again. ;-)

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

Re^4: Thx, St. Larry, for the Beauty of Sigils
by daxim (Curate) on Jul 30, 2019 at 10:14 UTC