Re: xkcd.com/353 ( Flying with Python )

Blue-Maned_Hawk wrote:

HenHanna wrote:

https://xkcd.com/1306/
                          what does  SIGIL   mean?

I'd define a sigil as a mandatory symbol used to indicate the properties of a name.

    if i'm getting this right...  Sigil is part of the language spec,
whereas (in Lisp in the old days), there was a convention of using var-name like *foo*  to                                    indicate it's a dynamic variable.
and sometimes   **foo**  for ....
and %foo%  or   %%foo%%   was used for ...........