On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Luca Ferrari <fluca1...@infinito.it>wrote:
> It's just one of those things. When Perl was invented, Larry Wall liked the idea of make the sigil mean something and mutate when the access did. Most other languages (that had sigils) didn't do that. Some people said "genius" some people weren't too thrilled but it was Perl ... I liked it, after I understood it. But now - here, ask Damian (search for sigil) http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/05/08/exegesis2.html -- a Andy Bach, afb...@gmail.com 608 658-1890 cell 608 261-5738 wk
