(who is "our" Abigail as well)

Alas, not any more, since some years now. - But it must be him; his main objection to Perl 6 is significant whitespace, and I'm with him on that one. I detest python for it's significant whitespace (or abuse of indentation) - python scripts look like full of dangling code to me - and I love the whitespace liberty of perl 5 which lets me align code vertically, like in 

    $foo  {three} = $doit -> (1 );
    $quux {two}   = get_that (25);

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which improves readability, imho.

In reply to Re^2: white spaces between the sigil and the variable ( $ x = ) by shmem
in thread white spaces between the sigil and the variable ( $ x = ) by Anonymous Monk

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