Here's how to fix it :) 

s/use strict;/#use strict;/

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But seriously, to me the problem seems to be associating the sigil with the variable's name.

How you name your variables is also important, scalars should be singular and arrays should be plural as much as possible.

As an aside, when I first saw Perl and all it's sigils I thought it was quite an ugly language, but any code can look good if it's well formatted and I miss the sigils if I go back to Java. When I write in Object Pascal, I put a prefix onto variable names to indicate their type.

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Robot Tourist, by Ten Benson

In reply to Re: The philosophy behind element reference syntax by robot_tourist
in thread The philosophy behind element reference syntax by jcoxen

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