use Perl

• Umm, what are you doing? (Score:1)

  by Louis_Wu (2993)

  I can't tell what you are doing. What was that psuedocode-ish "vspace skipped" stuff? What are you trying to do with the HTML?
  • Re:Umm, what are you doing? (Score:2)

    by TorgoX (1933)

    I'm trying to find a stubborn and subtle bug (or two or three, actually) in HTML::FormatPS. The indented window is the result of throwing it into trace mode.
    • Re:Umm, what are you doing? (Score:1)

      by Louis_Wu (2993)

      Ohh. I've never used trace mode, don't recall much about it, which would explain why I didn't have a clue about what I was looking at. Thanks. Good luck.
      • Re:Umm, what are you doing? (Score:2)

        by TorgoX (1933)

        Have a read about constants [samag.com] and take a wee peek at some old code of mine that uses them [cpan.org].
        • Obfuscation Fuel (Score:2)

          by Ovid (2709)

          The article about constants was so interesting that I posted a Meditation [perlmonks.org] at Perlmonks based on it. I particularly like how the following line prints '2', instead of the expected '3'. I can easily see obfuscations based upon using typeglobs to overwrite subroutines but sometimes using a null prototype and other times not using the prototype, thus allowing the typeglob assignment to do its thing.

          $ perl -e 'sub foo(){2};*::foo=sub(){3};print foo()'

          I will confess, though, in playing around with this th
          • Re:Obfuscation Fuel (Score:2)

            by TorgoX (1933)

            Pod::Simple::Debug [cpan.org] may amuse you. Usually it makes a constant, but sometimes not!
• Well... (Score:1)

  by pdcawley (485)

  If you will go using PFE instead of god's own editor...
  • Re:Well... (Score:2)

    by TorgoX (1933)

    I'm easily distractable; if I used a proper editor, I'd spend all day trying to customize it in ever more elaborate ways.