> They give hints for the reader.

Yep my main argument, better that this hungarian notation.

Even more sigils for refs would be handy and help avoiding explicit dereferencing.

But predominantly sigils are needed for imposing context.

> But sure, it doesn't look so clean.

and as always it's mostly about aesthetics...

... I was pondering about a highlighting add-on for emacs to hide sigils and semicolons with background color, to make Perl look like Ruby ;-)

Cheers Rolf

(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

In reply to Re^4: Opinion: where Perl5 wasn't attractive for me by LanX
in thread Opinion: where Perl5 wasn't attractive for me by rsFalse

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