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sinister
I'm using perl5, not perl6.
Does anyone know a pointer to an essay on perl's sigils? I've got the Camel
book, which goes over these things, but I'm looking for a discussion of the
general rationale. That is, a more abstract set of rules that would allow
me to interpret sigils without looking up meaning on a case-by-case basis.
One example: what general principle would allow one to interpret
%$a
conclude that
$array[1]
is correct but
@array[1]
isn't, and so forth.
TIA,
S
Does anyone know a pointer to an essay on perl's sigils? I've got the Camel
book, which goes over these things, but I'm looking for a discussion of the
general rationale. That is, a more abstract set of rules that would allow
me to interpret sigils without looking up meaning on a case-by-case basis.
One example: what general principle would allow one to interpret
%$a
conclude that
$array[1]
is correct but
@array[1]
isn't, and so forth.
TIA,
S