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How did all the haze treats you yesterday?

>Sigils are why I gave up learning PERL. Everything I learned had a half life of 10 minutes.

Interesting! By "half life of 10 minutes", do you mean the language was changing too quickly under you or that it was difficult to remember the sigils?

The author defines a _sigil_ as follows:

* a non-alphabetic character

* that is at the start of a word

* that communicates meta-information about the word.

He gives the example of `echo $USER`, where `$` is a single that communicates that `USER` is a variable, presumably with some contents. Thus, I'd wager `$` is a sigil in `$foo`.

>and to have an unsigilled option for people who don't like them

Sigilled "variables" do lose many of the perks that sigils provide though, as codesections explains in the blog.

>Programmers familiar with the use of sigils to indicate variables intrinsically grok this phrase, but it looks like gobbledygook to non-programmers.

While I understand where you're coming from, I'd argue that programming-related concepts are all "gobbledygook to non-programmers", that's to be expected. Having something like (this is close to valid Raku but it's not)

    Positional[Any] ages = [42, 38, 25];

doesn't make it any easier than

    my @ages = [42, 38, 25];

unless you already have prior knowledge of arrays, assignments, types, etc.

Thank you for your service, and Happy Memorial Day!