Stevan Little skribis 2005-10-18 10:16 (-0400): > You are probably right, but are the twigils actually special? or is > it just a naming convention.
dot sigils are not actually special. They are required on has-variables and forbidden on all other. Changing them to be optional is trivial, or so I hope. (I believe that sigils or twigils should not indicate scope, duration or type. The distinctin between the major variable types is useful, further distinction is not.) > I don't think this is true, this is a Perl 5-ism. Perl 5 isn't a synonym for "bad". "Perl 5-ism" can be construed as positive or negative. Please do elaborate. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.html