Re: Obscuring code?

[email protected] (horos)
Newsgroups perl.bootstrap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> 
> 
> This thread needs to stop now.
> 
> Everything that can possibly be said on both sides of this
> question has already been said, many times over, on clpm
> and other places.  If you're not familiar with all the arguments,
> go bone up.  If someone still feels that Perl should have an
> obfuscation feature, she should get used to the idea that her
> desire may well be frustrated.
> 
> However -- if one believes that compiling to binary object code
> is sufficient for obfuscation (which is delusional, btw), then
> she can take comfort in the fact that this may be a goal of the
> Perl6 project, although for different reasons.

Just put it this way. Since I'm taking notes on complaints for perl5, this 
is one of the complaints that I'll document, without suggestion of solution.

Ed
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