A small (for me) JAPH

[c-era]

I know some of you are going to think that I didn't write this one. After all it is much smaller, doesn't require IE or windows, and just prints out "Just Another Perl Hacker". Nevertheless, I did write this one (I needed a break from writing xs).

Those more experianced in perl should quickly know what I did, the rest of you will have to figure it out (it's a good learning experiance).

($_='Just Another Perl Hacker,' and$
# There's the string
::
{
join '', /\b\w/g
}
=$
# This is the magic
::
{
(split "")[2]^chop
})&&
# Here's the question
print $JAPH;

[Ovid]

Beautiful! That's a nifty way of putting that together :)

Warning: Spoiler Hint Follows

With c-era's permission, I offer the following hint to aspiring obfuperl coders: add the following two line to the end of the JAPH and study the output CAREFULLY:

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper( \%main:: ); # <- Hmm, what's that?

Cheers,
Ovid

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[BooK]

You might want to look at the optimised code with perl -MO=Deparse:

Spoiler

print $JAPH if $_ = 'Just Another Perl Hacker,' and
               $main::{join '', /\b\w/g} = $main::{(split(//, $_, 0))[
+2] ^ chop $_};

Nice use of symbolic references and ^...

The xor part reminds me of my own $A++ under constraints.