Perl has lots of weirdness, that's not surprising to anyone. It's still quite consistent in how it interprets sigils though, even if it's irritating (I don't f

Perl has lots of weirdness, that's not surprising to anyone. It's still quite consistent in how it interprets sigils though, even if it's irritating (I don't find stuff like "@{$foo->{bar}}" all that beautiful either). It's not like there was some universal norm around sigils, programmers intuition is informed by the languages they actually use.