Re: Writing highly obfuscated code in Perl

[Wookie]

While I admit to being very new to Perl - I find default/pre-defined variables to be a source of constant inspiration. Using $_ $@ $| etc. can really confuse things. Oh yeah - and overuse $_ - superfluously if possible - as an example from my first attempt I submitted today:

$_=_($_);$_+=$_;

(_ is a sub that returns the input++) and now you can use any of the following - all to get 4:

$_+=$_;
$_=$_*$_;
$_=$_**$_;

game(Wookie,opponent) eq 'Wookie' ? undef $problem : remove_limbs(arms,opponent);

[strat]

Use strange delimiters for patternmatches and ee (or at least e)for substitutions, e.g. s?one?$another?gee

Use ~~ instead of scalar

(Thanks to Damian Conway for his talk "Extreme Perl" at the Perl-Workshop; the ideas abouve are from him). Use y instead of tr

and so on and so on...

perl -le "~~s--*l-e=>y²*(min²*(cme(²=>s)[^\w]))g=>print"

Best regards,
perl -le "s==*F=e=>y~\*martinF~stronat~=>s~[^\w]~~g=>chop,print"