Re^5: Sigils in Perl 6

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Re^6: Sigils in Perl 6 by TimToady (Parson) on May 15, 2007 at 19:28 UTC
So is ^ a perl5 twigil? Heh, kinda, except it's almost completely wasted on producing variable names consisting of control characters. The ^ twigil in Perl 6 is rather more useful, I'd like to think. How many times have people been bitten by magical `$a` and `$b` in Perl 5? The ^ twigil fixes that, and more. A goodly many of Perl 6's features can be explained as simply trying to make Perl 5's FAQs into former FAQs.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^7: Sigils in Perl 6 by ysth (Canon) on May 15, 2007 at 20:25 UTC
Now I'm wondering when someone will write a YAPE::Regex::Explain-like module for perl 6 nouns :)	[reply]
Re^7: Sigils in Perl 6 by blazar (Canon) on May 20, 2007 at 11:43 UTC
How many times have people been bitten by magical `$a` and `$b` in Perl 5? While I'm a strong advocate of "do not use `$a` and `$b` as general purpose variables" myself, and I feel like having written so in hundreds of posts... to answer your question literally: "probably fewer than those who have been warned not to!"	[reply] [d/l] [select]