On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: > And what happens if a programmer wants to have two different variables, > of two different types, with the same name, such as @data and %data? > > Without sigils, it cannot be done.
Actually, if you squint, other languages are far ahead of Perl in this respect -- Hungarian notation! sData, aData, hData, ppiData, ... /s
