Monks,

I was perusing Meditations, as I am wont to do on a Friday afternoon. I stumbled upon Don’t Repeat Your… version number. It's probably because my brain is already off for the weekend, but I can't seem to wrap my head around the code:

my %const = map  { s/\s+//; $_ }
            map  { split /\s*=>\s*/ }  
            grep { /=>/ }              
            map  { split /\n/ } << '=cut';

=pod

This module uses the following constants:
                                        
    bang_eth => 1                       
    biff     => 2
    krunch   => 3

=cut

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I don't do a lot of POD, so I'm pretty lost. I can discern that the code is parsing something that looks like the POD at the end, grabbing the key/value pairs and putting them into a hash. Can anyone shed some (step-by-stepish) light on this?

Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.

In reply to POD Meditation? by temporal

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