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Yuki Kimoto - SPVM Author
Yuki Kimoto - SPVM Author

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Perl Sigil is inherited from Shell Script Variable Expansion.

Perl Sigil is inherited from Shell Script Variable Expansion.

my $name = 'Kimoto';
my $message = "I'm $name";
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I wish Perl's philosophy of respecting shell scripts became known.

This is not dirty things as some people say.

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Emil Perhinschi

Perl's "sigils" are dereference operators , not true sigils ; BASIC had sigisl, PHP has sigils, Raku has sigils ... BASH and Perl 5 have dereference operators

if you think of them as dereference operators it is a lot easier to read Perl code

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bbrtj

Partly yes, because $$var in PHP reads: variable with name stored in $var, while in Perl reads: variable which $var refers to.
Partly no, because $var and @var and %var are completely independent variables, and they likely shouldn't if they were dereferencing the same thing I guess.
Also, var itself is a bareword and does not exist as a variable without its sigil and outside of symbol table.

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Emil Perhinschi

"$var and @var and %var are completely independent variables"

they're not independent in the symbol table

"var itself" would be a subroutine, which is stored in the same symbol table and accessed by using the & "sigil" if you really want to use "&", though the compiler tries subs first when encountering barewords

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Yuki Kimoto - SPVM Author

Python is all of all unrelated in this entry.

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Gabor Szabo

Did you add the Python tag to this?

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Yuki Kimoto - SPVM Author

"read next" show me unrelated python topic.

If the Dev Community team knows this things, it may lead to improvements.

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Gabor Szabo

There is a "#python" tag on this post.

My question was, if you added the #python tag to this post, or someone else?

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Yuki Kimoto - SPVM Author

It's me, on the other hand, there is a reason to add it.

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Gabor Szabo

So you are misleading the algorithm by adding a Python tag to a post that has nothing to do with Python and then you are complaining that the algorithm does not work well.

Sounds totally reasonable.

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Yuki Kimoto - SPVM Author

To be honest, I don't feel this is the best way to do it. This would be a bit rough way.

On the other hand, I have felt algorithms that increase prejudice and prejudgment in many places.

I want to reduce these because some people are suffering from it.

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Yuki Kimoto - SPVM Author

This entry read next show pyenv. why?

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🌌 Sébastien Feugère ☔

I guess the read next entries are based on your own interest on the platform. They are different for me.

  • ZSH
  • EOFError
  • Bash
  • Vim

By the way, they don't reflect my interests that much either.

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Yuki Kimoto - SPVM Author

thank you.

I send a message and wait for improvement.

It feels like an algorithm that further widens the gap.