Okay, now we're back to .. in a list context. This makes a lot more sense!

Looking in perlop, I find that 'c' .. '__' will generate all the strings from 'c' to 'zz', because:

If the final value specified is not in the sequence that the magical increment would produce, the sequence goes until the next value would be longer than the final value specified.
The next string after 'zz' is 'aaa'; length('aaa') is greater than length('__'), so the sequence ends.

The map is used to generate this list of strings and select a certain string five times; those five strings are printed to produce the author's name.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Un-obfuscate me by chipmunk
in thread Un-obfuscate me by Anonymous Monk

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