The sigils are very useful in a language which doesn't play well with IDEs. They're redundant for something like C# but Perl has always struggled with IDEs and

The sigils are very useful in a language which doesn't play well with IDEs. They're redundant for something like C# but Perl has always struggled with IDEs and is notoriously resistant to static analysis so even good ones will have gaps. I personally have never enjoyed using one with Perl. It does get a bit messy with coercion like (%{$hash->{$key}}) but I believe recent versions have made that a little nicer. I'm stuck on a decade old one though.