I've seen those three character prefixes in real code. It's not unjustified criticism at all. Luckily I've not needed to work with perl for ~15 years, but it wa

I've seen those three character prefixes in real code. It's not unjustified criticism at all. Luckily I've not needed to work with perl for ~15 years, but it was something like \$@, maybe. > but you can write messy code without spaces like that in many languages I think it's fair to say that Perl forces these extra hoops more than any other language.