I don't generally believe that because anyone going to obfuscate their source is more likely to use an automated method than doing it manually. Heck, you could even use my
B::Deobfuscate module to do this. I meant to write a complementary obfuscating module but its quite a bit more of a pain since B::Deparse includes a lot of explanatory white space that's difficult to remove. The B::Deobfuscate module trivially renames things by subclassing B::Deparse and overriding some of the functions related to naming things.