my $x = 42; let x = 42 Well, when you add in the '$' and ';' tokens the "let" example is still shorter. Also as another person replied to you, those other two

my $x = 42; let x = 42 Well, when you add in the '$' and ';' tokens the "let" example is still shorter. Also as another person replied to you, those other two examples are declarations in other languages. So 0 for 3 there.