Looking at https://docs.perl6.org/language/variables there are 4 variable types with sigil: $, @, %, &. In Perl 5 I used to call them scalar, array, hash, and function respectively, even if the scalar variable had a reference to an array in it.
How do you call them in Perl 6? As I understand @ always holds an array (@.^name is always Array or some Array[type]). Similarly % always holds a hash and & is always a function or a method. So calling them array, hash, and function sounds good. However I am not sure what to call the variables with a $ sigil? Should they be called "scalars"? Wouldn't that case confusion as there is also a container-type called Scalar. The word "scalar" appears twice in the document describing the variables: https://docs.perl6.org/language/variables and a total of 135 in the whole doc including the 5to6 documents and the document describing the Scalar type. The document describing the Scalar type: https://docs.perl6.org/type/Scalar the term "$-sigiled variable" is used which seems to be a bit long for general use. So I wonder how do *you* call them? Gabor
