Comment by voidUpdate
4 days ago
I actually don't know, I just assume the majority of people are americans and that's why they use $. I don't use $ in programming except for string interpolation, so it's never really registered as a variable sigil to me
Every time I use $word in a comment is to be reminiscent of POSIX-style string interpolation for some word. The vast majority of cases where I've seen it are such, only if "word" is numeric do I expect $ is used as a currency symbol.
Oh no my PHPness is showing!
Also, many, many countries use $, like Canada.
If you think it would reflect on you better, think of it as indicating regular POSIX shell use?!
(I'm 99% sure it's intended to be reminiscent of that sort of syntax. Example use: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42761939)
> I don't use $ in programming except for string interpolation
... but the entire point of the "$JOB" etc. slang is that it's a string interpolation...
Not how I use it, string interpolation would be $"{job}"
That depends on the language. In unix shell,
and
are identical, though the latter is more flexible (Allowing eg. `echo ${JOB:-unemployment}` or `echo ${JOB}SUCKS`).