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Description
$ man perlglossary
sigil
A glyph used in magic. Or, for Perl, the symbol in front of a
variable name, such as "$", "@", and "%".
OK, but do document somewhere that this can optionally be followed by whitespace.
$ perl -wle 'use strict; my $ m=4; print $ m;'
4
Not mentioned in perlsyn or perlvar or perlref.
Yes, also mention doing so, though legal, is bad practice. Then perlstyle
• No space before the semicolon.
need not also mention
• No space after the sigil.