Re: variable type specific sigils (was Re: Sigils by example)

2007-05-14 Thread Darren Duncan
At 5:00 PM -0700 5/14/07, Darren Duncan wrote: On the other hand, unless this steps on something, I could suggest dropping the @ and % anyway, so we have $array and $hash, and then we could instead use the @ and % sigils as a prefix to indicate in that case that we want them to copy by value.

variable type specific sigils (was Re: Sigils by example)

2007-05-14 Thread Darren Duncan
Speaking just for my own preferences, I very much like having sigils to differentiate variables from routines, that is, a $ prefix versus either & or no prefix. However, I generally do *not* like the @ and % prefixes. They seem somewhat contrived so to cover very specific variable types while