Talk:Sigil (computer programming)
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This is the source of the long tradition of using "i", "j", "k" etc as the loop indexes of "for loops" in many programming languages—few of which have implicit typing).
It seems like this comes from math instead. As in, x sub i and x sub j
There is one thing that I find confusing about this article. In the second paragraph it is stated that Perl's sigils were adopted from the shell sigils. On the other hand, the first paragraph of Language comparision state that the $ in shell scripting is not a sigil. Isn't that a contradiction?