Re: It's the thought that counts

You were puzzled? Maybe it's not as bad as I thought. :)

To be honest I had much grander plans for this one but, depending on how you look at it, I ran out of either talent or time. Maybe I should have postponed it until next year.

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Tom Waddington

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Re: Re: It's the thought that counts by BooK (Curate) on Feb 14, 2001 at 23:59 UTC
Well, even though I don't like "obfuscation" schemes that include calls to `crypt`, `unpack` or `chr`, I have to admit I don't know the ASCII table by heart. :-) So, I noticed all those 44s, decided I could at least change the `eval` for a `print`, and see what it actually did (mind you, I didn't guess... but the way to do it is still, er, poor). If the main point in an obfuscation is based on `s///`, `crypt`, or `chr` to make it hard to understand, you can be sure I won't like it. Try to do the same thing in a completely unnatural and complicated way, and there you will have me try to understand what it does, parsing it by hand, and so on...	[reply]

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Re: Re: It's the thought that counts
by BooK (Curate) on Feb 14, 2001 at 23:59 UTC

Well, even though I don't like "obfuscation" schemes that include calls to crypt, unpack or chr, I have to admit I don't know the ASCII table by heart. :-)

So, I noticed all those 44s, decided I could at least change the eval for a print, and see what it actually did (mind you, I didn't guess... but the way to do it is still, er, poor).

If the main point in an obfuscation is based on s///, crypt, or chr to make it hard to understand, you can be sure I won't like it. Try to do the same thing in a completely unnatural and complicated way, and there you will have me try to understand what it does, parsing it by hand, and so on...

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