Talk:twigil
Add topicLatest comment: 4 years ago by Equinox in topic Etymology from "twin"
Etymology from "twin"
[edit]> A character added to a sigil to denote its scope.
From the Glossary in "Learning Perl 6: Keeping the Easy, Hard, and Impossible Within Reach" By brian d foy, OReilly https://books.google.se/books?id=sbRqDwAAQBAJ
https://docs.raku.org/language/variables.html#Twigils says:
> each twigil combines with a regular sigil to denote the scope.
The "tw" in the name is to be understood as something like "twin-character sigil". — This comment was unsigned.
- Okay, I'll trust this and put twin in the etymology. Thanks. Equinox ◑ 20:10, 3 July 2020 (UTC)