You're far off the path. I'm not into hiding my sources, but into learning on Perl as a whole. Since I can not 'prove' this you may believe what you like to. On the other hand, with you having no evidence for your assumptions, I think you're too quick in your conclusions on the motivations of posters.
On the library thing: I don't know too much on static and shared C libraries. But you may notice that, depending on your configuration, your Perl ships with those .a files, too. Including extensions as static into Perl does not seem to mean what you think it means.

~/tmp$ find perl -name '*.a'
perl/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a
perl/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux/CORE/libperl.a
perl/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a
perl/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/attrs/attrs.a
perl/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/Cwd/Cwd.a
perl/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.a
perl/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/File/Glob/Glob.a
perl/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/Filter/Util/Call/Call.a
perl/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/Filter/decrypt/decrypt.a
perl/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/IO/IO.a
perl/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/IPC/SysV/SysV.a
perl/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/List/Util/Util.a
perl/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/MIME/Base64/Base64.a
perl/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/PerlIO/encoding/encoding.a
perl/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/PerlIO/scalar/scalar.a
perl/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/PerlIO/via/via.a
perl/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/Socket/Socket.a
perl/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/Sys/Hostname/Hostname.a
perl/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/Time/HiRes/HiRes.a
perl/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.a

[download]

In reply to Re^2: Breaking a Filter::decrypt like source filter by olego
in thread Breaking a Filter::decrypt like source filter by olego

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.