On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Luke Palmer wrote:
: > In Perl, variable names always begin with a special character called
: > a sigil,
:
: Ahem, "funny character." The Camel glossary has no entry for "sigil"
: (though I realize it's common terminology).
"Sigil" is fine these days.
Larry
On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 01:07 PM, Luke Palmer wrote:
>> Any value may be forced, however, into being an explicit type: this is
>> commonly known as casting or typecasting. Typecasting is the act of
>> transforming a value of one type into a value of another type. The
>> typecasting ope
> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:24:56 -0700
> From: Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> In Perl, variable names always begin with a special character called
> a sigil,
Ahem, "funny character." The Camel glossary has no entry for "sigil"
(though I realize it's common terminology).
>
> Any value
I was writing up a quick beginner-level summary on variables &
assignment yesterday evening, mostly to get my head around the syntax
as it currently stands. You can see it at
http://cog.cognitivity.com/perl6/var.html
if desired. The 3 or 4 parts in red are things that I'm making up
