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Update perldata.pod else everybody will think sigil=$ #22429

Open jidanni opened 1 month ago

jidanni commented 1 month ago

No matter all my life I thought "Sigil" only meant "$".

It's not because "S" looks like "$", it was because of this one sided example!

Well, no more discrimination allowed in this sentence. Equal opportunity for all!

rwp0 commented 1 month ago

Haha, cool!

guest20 commented 1 month ago

The section of the document you're patching is about special variables that don't obey normal parsing rules. I don't think @1 is a useful example (since it's in *1 as reserved by regex match vars)

You might be better served to add a "sigils" heading above the paragraphs that explain each sigil, then add a heading for each sigil above each paragraph...

jidanni commented 1 month ago

Personally I also didn't want to "send the other two children home" in order to "replace them with members of underrepresented groups."

So... please anybody fix this page one way or another. Any way is fine with me. As far as me editing my edit... that would make a Git Mess surely. So please just change the page as you see fit. Thanks.

guest20 commented 1 month ago

What's all this about children?

jidanni commented 1 month ago

There were three items. I didn't want to add more items, so I changed two of the three.