note blazar <blockquote><i>...if they're embedded in an eval block...</i></blockquote> <p>That is an actual option of the poll, in case you missed it.</p> <blockquote><i>...if they've been careful about their backups...</i></blockquote> <p>And I wanted the options to be Perl specific, while this isn't. But your remark anyway kind of reminds me of [wp://List of characters in Battle Angel Alita|Desty Nova], a fictional charachter from the [wp://Battle Angel Alita] manga, who at some time was beheaded by [wp://Alita] - yet he had a backup of his cerebral chip implanted in his stomach. (Of course he also could not die for being beheaded because of the nanomachines he injected in his self.) Actually I am unsure about which version of Perl Nova uses for his own work...</p> 643317 643332