Re^4: what does @$ mean?

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Re^5: what does @$ mean? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Oct 01, 2008 at 16:27 UTC
That's how you see it because you are entirely familiar with it. Punctuation and prudent whitespace can especially help a newcomer to parse any kind of semantic content. "Reeval" and "re-eval" may convey the same meaning but the first is more confusing to the uninitiated and likely to mentally parse as "ree-val." I didn't mean that @{$foo} would be automatically understood, only that it is more likely to convey the meaning "array" which is a better starting point for a novice than "crazy compound sigil which I can't seem to find in any of the documents or Google."	[reply]

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Re^5: what does @$ mean?
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Oct 01, 2008 at 16:27 UTC

That's how you see it because you are entirely familiar with it. Punctuation and prudent whitespace can especially help a newcomer to parse any kind of semantic content. "Reeval" and "re-eval" may convey the same meaning but the first is more confusing to the uninitiated and likely to mentally parse as "ree-val." I didn't mean that @{$foo} would be automatically understood, only that it is more likely to convey the meaning "array" which is a better starting point for a novice than "crazy compound sigil which I can't seem to find in any of the documents or Google."

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