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by cygx 2513 days ago
That difference is indeed obvious. The issue is sigil variance.
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nerdponx 2512 days ago
Highlighting sigil variance was my point, poorly stated.
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emilper 2500 days ago
Perl5 does not have "sigils", BASH, BASIC and Perl 6 have sigils.

Perl 5 has dereference operators, which got called "sigils" by lazy documentation and book authors.

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