Blue-Maned_Hawk wrote:

HenHanna wrote:

https://xkcd.com/1306/
                          what does  SIGIL   mean?

I'd define a sigil as a mandatory symbol used to indicate the properties of a name.

if i'm getting this right... Sigil is part of the language spec,

whereas (in Lisp in the old days), there was a convention of using var-name like *foo* to indicate it's a dynamic variable.

and sometimes   **foo**  for ....

and %foo%  or   %%foo%%   was used for ...........
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