Johanne Fairchild wrote:
HenHanna <henha...@devnull.tb> writes:
https://xkcd.com/1306/
what does SIGIL mean?
A glyph used in magic. Or, for Perl, the symbol in front of a variable
name, such as $, @, and %.
Source: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlglossary#sigil
Sigil is noun. Definitions:
A seal; a signet.
A sign or an image considered magical.
A seal; a signature.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th
Edition.
omg... Sigil is a real word???
The word "sigil" comes from the Latin term "sigillum," which means "little sign." This Latin root is also
the source of our English word "seal," making "sigil" and "seal" doublets.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sigil
__________________________words that we use in Programming but not Found in a
real dictionary :
Camel case , int, char, min, len, def, elseif
cons, defun, cond, goto,
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