Re: Deparse isn't as reliable as I thought

[davido]

One of the marks of a good obfuscation is one that runs fine as coded, but fails to run in its B::Deparse'd version. B::Deparse isn't perfect. Only perl can 100% reliably parse Perl. And even then it's probably only 99.99999% reliable. ;)

[diotalevi]

Deparse doesn't parse perl either. It generates perl. Every time Deparse fails to produce source code that compiles back to the same thing, that's a bug. There are no obfuscations that should be undeparseable.

[truedfx]

What about BEGIN { close STDOUT; }? (No, I'm not entirely serious here.)

[diotalevi]

You might as well be. To deparse that, you'd want B::Deparse to be able to write to a file instead of just STDOUT.

[Steve_p]

Agreed. Several modules depend on the proper functioning of B::Deparse. If there is a difference, you should report the bug with perlbug. Please provide the test scripts so this can problem can be investigated.