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Twigil vs Sigil - What's the difference?

twigil | sigil | Derived terms |

Sigil is a derived term of twigil.



As nouns the difference between twigil and sigil

is that twigil is a character prepended to a variable name to indicate its scope while sigil is a seal, signature or signet.

twigil

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia twigil)
  • (computing, programming, Perl language) A character prepended to a variable name to indicate its scope.

    • sigil

    English

    (wikipedia sigil)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A seal, signature or signet.
  • A sign, image or symbol considered to be magical.
  • (programming) A nonalphanumeric character affixed to a symbol (e.g. variable) to indicate a property such as type or scope.

    • Derived terms

    * sigillary * sigillate * sigillation * sigillative * sigillistic * sigillography * sigillum * twigil

    See also

    * Hungarian notation