I guess he meant one could change the method name (and every invocation of said method) to something hard to read and without reference to what the method actually does. For instance, change 

sub average {
...
}
...
print average( ... )

[download]
to 
sub xyyxwx {
...
}
...
print xyyxwx( ... )

[download]

Of course this would be only one of several tricks (and not a particularly successful one) in a code obfuscator.

Cheers

Antonio

The stupider the astronaut, the easier it is to win the trip to Vega - A. Tucket

In reply to Re: Obfuscating method calls by abell
in thread Obfuscating method calls by diotalevi

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