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Just posted “Sigils are an underappreciated programing technology” https://raku-advent.blog/2022/12/20/sigils/

An extract:

This post represents my attempt to to convince you that sigils are a powerful tool for writing clear, expressive code.

No, strike that, I’ll go further – this post is my argument that sigils are a **powerful tool for clear communication in general**; sigils being useful for programming is just an application of the more general rule.