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From:
Russ Allbery
Date:
July 25, 2000 14:32
Subject:
Re: Obscuring code?
Message ID:
ylwvi9yjyq.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu
phil <phil@Stimpy.netroedge.com> writes:

> I don't know if this has been covered or not (I just subscribed and
> didn't see an archive for the list), but I'd like to propose some
> method, whether built into Perl6 or completely external, to provide
> obscuring of source code.

I think I'm going to go unsubscribe now and come back in a few days when
the flames die down....

(Phil, it may seem like a perfectly reasonable and normal thing to want,
but for a lot of folks here it goes against everything that is Perl to
hide the source code for a Perl script.  This is a *very* frequently
discussed/flamed topic in comp.lang.perl.misc; you can probably see more
opinions than you'd ever care to by doing a Deja search.)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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