Perl Sigil is inherited from Shell Script Variable Expansion.

Yuki Kimoto - SPVM Author - Mar 11 '21 - - Dev Community

Perl Sigil is inherited from Shell Script Variable Expansion.

my $name = 'Kimoto';
my $message = "I'm $name";
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I wish Perl's philosophy of respecting shell scripts became known.

This is not dirty things as some people say.

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