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Den 2021-05-23 kl. 21:33 skrev L A Walsh: > 2) Going 'unnecessary-sigil' optional. You've clearly put some thought into this, and there's nothing on face value that I would regard as impossible in your proposal. That said, I don't see it ever being enabled by default in any version of Perl for a couple of reasons: 1. It feels "unperlish". 2. It seems to admit that sigils were a bad idea from the beginning. I don't think everyone agrees about that. I don't think I personally do. 3. Many parts of Perl have been designed with the assumption that variables have sigils. For example, let's assume that Perl never had sigils. If that had been the case, I would doubt that lists would act the way they do in Perl. This x = (0, 0); y = 1; z = (x, y); # z is (0, 0, 1) just doesn't seem intuitive to me, and I suspect that it would trip up most people, just like the UNIX shell's word splitting does. Once you add sigils, however: @x = (0, 0); $y = 1; @z = (@x, $y); # @z is (0, 0, 1) ... the intention is much more clear and the automatic list flattening is no longer a foot gun; instead, it becomes a very useful feature. In summary, sigils likely make a lot of useful Perl syntax possible -- syntax that would be hard to remove from Perl without transforming it into an entirely different language.Thread Previous | Thread Next