Re: Re: Unlocking the Dark Mysteries of Acme::Bleach

[demerphq]

in reply to Re: Unlocking the Dark Mysteries of Acme::Bleach
in thread Unlocking the Dark Mysteries of Acme::Bleach

or doesn't begin with $tie (a sequence of 8 tabs)

Actually if you look closely its actually space-tab x 8. :-) I made the same mistake at first too. Its kinda cute because it represents '01' x 8. Which is longer than any of the subsequent encoded lines, which are all at most 9 chars + /n.

my $tie = " \t"x8;

Locally change the __WARN__ handler to dirty() which returns true if a warning matches non-whitespace.

The point is why though. I beleive the intention is suppress any warnings generated by the following code, regardless as to whether it actually includes a use warnings or what not. Of course if __WARN__ is overriden later theres a problem.. :-)

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demerphq

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[Aristotle]

The return value of a signal handler is insignificant. Since the function doesn't have any side effects, he's effectively just ignoring warnings. It's almost obvious he's simply doing it for (Perl) poetic value.

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