On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:04 PM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote: > My understanding of the Perl5 sigils is that they are meant to denote > the type of result that will be _returned_*. > $ can return a list of scalars in addition to a scalar. @ can return an array in addition to a list of scalars % can return a hash in addition to a list of scalars & can return a scalar & can return a list of scalars * returns a scalar Seems to me there are already far more exceptions to that rule than they are adherents.Thread Previous | Thread Next