Hi there,

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Fabrice Scemama wrote:

> There's another way. We can't build pre-compiled modules easily,
> but even when you code in C or Java, desassemblers can extract
> some source from the binaries you deliver. As far as perl scripts are
> concerned, a workaround consists in trivially removing all comments
> and \n from the source, which makes it as hard to understand as
> raw C desassembled code.

Perl is only *semi* free-format.  Removing \n will break much Perl
code, for example because of the use of the print <<END; construct.

1.  TMTOWTDI
2.  Whatever happened to `open source'?
3.  Have we done this now, folks?

73,
Ged.

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