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* John Ankarstrm <john@ankarstrom.se> [2021-07-05 13:26:20 +0200]: > Den 2021-07-05 kl. 03:53 skrev Christian Walde: > > I think it's a good idea to respect this: > > > > On Mon, 24 May 2021 09:54:01 +0200, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > > > >> Thanks for thinking this through, and writing a clear explanation. > >> > >> So, "removing sigils" has been discussed and is not feasible > >> > >> It is not happening. No more mails about it. > >> > >> Nicholas Clark > > Thanks Christian, I missed that message. > I can see "sigil-less Perl" be a subset sort of thing, like "standard perl". I can't claim this to be true, but something is nagging at me that removing sigils was indeed part of this effort. In any case, like all efforts to do something really crazy, there's always been a concession that said radical thing only was available for a subset of Perl. In addition the the sigil thing being wholly unpopular amongst most Perl/perl people, many "perlish" things require the disambiguation and context that the sigils offer, Cheers, Brett -- -- oodler@cpan.org oodler577@sdf-eu.org SDF-EU Public Access UNIX System - http://sdfeu.org irc.perl.org #openmp #pdl #native