Talk:Sigil (computer programming): Difference between revisions

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== Nonsense about Lisp ==

In the "earmuffs" convention, the asterisks do not '''surround''' a variable name in any sense. They are '''part of the symbol name'''. They are not a sygilsigil any more than <code>C</code> is a sygil onsigilon class names in the Microsoft Foundation Classes or ATL, or <code>_t</code> is a sygilsigil in some C typedef names.

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The name of the <code>*standard-output*</code> symbol is the character string <code>"*STANDARD-OUTPUT*"</code>, asterisks and all.

The first paragraph of the article makes it clear that sigil is "attached to" a name. Something part of a name isn't attached to a name.

[[Special:Contributions/24.85.131.247|24.85.131.247]] ([[User talk:24.85.131.247|talk]]) 05:50, 26 January 2014 (UTC)