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On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 10:35 PM L A Walsh <astara@tlinx.org> wrote: > 2) Going 'unnecessary-sigil' optional. > > If a symbol has a unique type (SCALAR, sub, HASH, etc), and is declared > before use by 'whatever appropriate mechanism', and there is no introduced > ambiguity, then the sigil can be left off. In any case of ambiguity or > where the same symbol is used with more than one type, or where the symbol > isn't defined, a sigil would be required in the same way it currently is. > > There are likely sub-issues associated with this, but past programs, that > use sigils would continue to execute the way they do now (compatibility). > And how are new programs supposed to handle this? I can use the bare `foo` variable declared in my `Foo::Bar::somesub` and then, some other module adds `foo` sub to my namespace and looks like bare variable shadows this sub and this is kind of unexpected.Thread Previous | Thread Next