[mihaic]

Personally, I have the exact opposite thoughs on sigils: they break my fluency in reading code.

Not all sigils are as bad, but to me it's as if there's a word from a foreign language italicized in an english sentance -- that means I'll have a reading pause there.

The dollar sign is among the worst, and curly braces are the lightest, with ”@" bring in the middle in terms of pausing reading.