in reply to Perl module Backwards??? Does this exist?

Run this:

perl -MBackwards -e 'print $INC{"Backwards.pm"},"\n"'

That will tell you where the Backwards module is. Read the source and find out what it's doing. With a bit of luck it won't be XS module :)

I can't see anything on CPAN called Backwards except File::ReadBackwards.pm. You did know about search.cpan.org, didn't you?