Re: Overhead of __DATA__?

[clintp]

As far as I can tell (and I'm not an expert on the Perl sources), during tokenization when __DATA__ is encountered Perl creates a filehandle for the current package called DATA and leaves the file pointer right there.

Other nonsense happens if you're on a platform that cares about binmode() and whether the script was found on stdin...<handwave/>

(Curiously, DATA is assumed to be untainted. I wonder if this could be used to a JAPH's advantage...)

[E-Bitch]

Actually, Cirollo did just that with an Obfu... very interesting, and the first I had ever encountered it.
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[extremely]

What is curious about DATA being untainted when read? Would you rather the program consider itself tainted? =)

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