I would try unravelling stuff in the Obfuscation section.

BTW congratulations. It has been a long time since something was pointed out to me about Perl that truly made me go, Ick! You succeeded.

BTW trading oddities, why do the following two programs print different things? 

#######
## A ##
#######
use strict;
my $foo;

$foo = "outside";
for $foo (qw(a b c)) {
  print_foo();
}

sub print_foo {
  print "$foo\n";
}
__END__


#######
## B ##
#######
use strict;
our $foo;

$foo = "outside";
for $foo (qw(a b c)) {
  print_foo();
}

sub print_foo {
  print "$foo\n";
}
__END__

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