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by: Blue-Maned_Hawk - Sat, 30 Mar 2024 17:32 UTC

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.

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by: Johanne Fairchild - Sat, 30 Mar 2024 21:09 UTC

HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> writes:

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

A glyph used in magic. Or, for Perl, the symbol in front of a variable
name, such as $, @, and %.

Source:
https://perldoc.perl.org/perlglossary#sigil

Sigil is noun. Definitions:

A seal; a signet.
A sign or an image considered magical.
A seal; a signature.

Source:
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,
5th Edition.

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by: HenHanna - Sat, 30 Mar 2024 21:34 UTC

Johanne Fairchild wrote:

> HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> writes:

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

> A glyph used in magic. Or, for Perl, the symbol in front of a variable
> name, such as $, @, and %.

> Source: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlglossary#sigil

> Sigil is noun. Definitions:

> A seal; a signet.
> A sign or an image considered magical.
> A seal; a signature.

> Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

omg... Sigil is a real word???

The word "sigil" comes from the Latin term "sigillum," which means "little sign." This Latin root is also the source of our English word "seal," making "sigil" and "seal" doublets.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sigil

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cons, defun, cond, goto,

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by: HenHanna - Wed, 3 Apr 2024 21:50 UTC

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by: HenHanna - Wed, 3 Apr 2024 23:08 UTC

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 ...........

Nobody said computers were going to be polite.

devel / comp.lang.lisp / Re: xkcd.com/353 ( Flying with Python )

Subject	Author
xkcd.com/353 ( Flying with Python )	HenHanna
Re: xkcd.com/353 ( Flying with Python )	Greg Ewing
Re: xkcd.com/353 ( Flying with Python )	HenHanna
Re: xkcd.com/353 ( Flying with Python )	Blue-Maned_Hawk
Re: xkcd.com/353 ( Flying with Python )	HenHanna
Re: xkcd.com/353 ( Flying with Python )	Johanne Fairchild
Re: xkcd.com/353 ( Flying with Python )	HenHanna
Re: xkcd.com/353 ( Flying with Python )	HenHanna