Drat. All I had was this: old obfu tricks revealed - I wouldn't've minded seeing the explanation as to WHY it's acceptable syntax :)

As far as $^I... Really? After all I've read about fans of obfu searching perldoc perlvar for vars to exploit...

Thanks for the ++. I hope to produce more fine nuggets of misleading and hard to follow code.

Oh. And stuff that's actually helpful for people too. ;)