On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:21:51PM -0500, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: > And what happens if a programmer wants to have two different variables, > of two different types, with the same name, such as @data and %data? > > Without sigils, it cannot be done.
Vast numbers of C, C++, C#, Java, Python, Lisp, APL, FORTRAN, Forth, COBOL, Shell, Basic, ASM, Pascal, Modula-*, Oberon, Smalltalk, Ruby, Ada, Tcl, Icon, SNOBOL and Objective C programmers have been quite productive for many man-millenia without this capability. Z.
