Re: A curses-based JAPH

[eyepopslikeamosquito]

Since eyespoplikeamosquito laid out a brief history of the JAPH ...

Thanks for the acknowledgement ... despite the spelling variation. ;-) So now I know the merlyn, the larry and the brian have all written a JAPH. What about TheDamian?

[TheDamian]

I've never written one. I suppose if I did, my first attempt might look something like:

#?<')I;G0G2G5S="!A;F]T:&5R(%!E<FP@:&%C:V5R)P```
eval<DATA>;sub'_{$_=unpack+u=>$_=>until/u(?{eval})/}
   __DATA__
seek+DATA=>$%,%$;_%;for<DATA>=~'.(.*.).'

[eyepopslikeamosquito]

Thanks for that. Very evil, er, nice. /me scribbles some new obfu tricks.

If I may make a criticism of this first attempt from a JAPH beginner, it is the title. AFAICT, by Perl Monks convention, it should read something like "My First JAPH!!!" and contain a plea to please be kind. ;-)

Oh, and it's not canonical. To canonicalize, replace the first line with:

#@<')I;G0G2G5S="!A;F]T:&5R(%!E<FP@:&%C:V5R+"<``

As a bit of a spoiler, re-formatting the code like this:

#@<')I;G0G2G5S="!A;F]T:&5R(%!E<FP@:&%C:V5R+"<``
eval<DATA>;
sub X { $_ = unpack('u', $_) until /u(?{eval})/ }
__DATA__
seek(DATA, 0, 0); X() for <DATA> =~ /.(.*.)./;

makes it a bit easier to understand.