in reply to
Re: Re: Learning from Obfuscation
in thread Learning from Obfuscation
It's like "try this, or try that", or "this does this and that does this". That's all well and good, but how did you decide to try this and try that?
I addressed this in the first JAPH talk I gave. It went like
First you get an idea, then you work out the details.
Getting the idea can come from many sources: studying the
manual page, reading Perl forums like comp.lang.perl.misc,
p5p, The Perl Journal, or from IRC. If you look at my first
set of slides, there's a section labelled "The making of a
Japh". It discusses the process that started with seeing someone use
&%%hole in a non-Perl related usenet group and
ended with the Japh:
split // => '"';
${"@_"} = "/"; split // => eval join "+" => 1 .. 7;
*{"@_"} = sub {foreach (sort keys %_) {print "$_ $_{$_} "}};
%{"@_"} = %_ = (Just => another => Perl => Hacker); &{%{%_}};
(The code above will not always work correctly with 5.8.1
or later).
Abigail
