FWIW, with a little syntactic trick, you can actually have sigillless variables in Perl 6: my \foo = $ = 42; # bind sigilless name to a container with 42

FWIW, with a little syntactic trick, you can actually have sigillless variables in Perl 6: my \foo = $ = 42; # bind sigilless name to a container with 42 say foo; # 42 foo = 666; say foo; # 666 See https://opensource.com/article/18/9/using-sigils-perl-6 https://opensource.com/article/18/9/using-sigils-perl-6 for more information. </plug>