So an unenforced convention that does the same thing as a sigil, but worse. It can't be relied upon because it's not enforced. I've lost count of how many tim

So an unenforced convention that does the same thing as a sigil, but worse. It can't be relied upon because it's not enforced. I've lost count of how many times I've seen streams without their trailing $ in codebases where people were theoretically using them. If you can't rely on the symbol or its absence meaning anything, it's just more punctuation.