Timeline for What was the origin of sigils as an alternative to explicit type declarations?
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| Nov 3, 2021 at 5:26 | history | edited | dirkt | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 310 characters in body |
| Nov 2, 2021 at 13:49 | comment | added | hobbs | Your facts about Perl are wrong, and you also got the name of the language wrong. | |
| Oct 3, 2021 at 9:51 | history | edited | dirkt | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 2 characters in body |
| Oct 3, 2021 at 4:46 | comment | added | dirkt | @BenCrowell your question is based on some assumptions that don't really apply, in particular that use of $ of BASIC in the one hand and shells or Perl on the other hand is somehow comparable. It does explain why BASIC uses $ and () as suffixes to create new kinds of variables, and that this is not a new idea, and has been used before. | |
| Oct 3, 2021 at 1:50 | comment | added | user4766 | This doesn't address the question. | |
| Oct 2, 2021 at 12:25 | comment | added | dave | DIM is only actually needed for arrays whose largest index exceeds 10. I regard that as evidence of avoiding type declarations where possible, with a dollop of pragmatism on the side. | |
| Oct 2, 2021 at 8:45 | history | edited | dirkt | CC BY-SA 4.0 | edited body |
| Oct 2, 2021 at 7:30 | history | answered | dirkt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |