> But if that's all you want then you can do that already.  
> For free.  Just run your program through Acme::Bleach before 
> you pack it into a PAR archive and it will be hidden.  Someone 
> wanting to read your source will have to go a-gooling to figure 
> out how, and your boss will find that s/he can't find a trace 
> of source code (or any other code in this particular case!).

Yes, quite amusing little module.  There are some other good obfuscation techniques 
discussed here:
http://domm.zsi.at/talks/obfu_yapc2002/obfu_yapc.html

(Probably well known by good perl hackers, but might be interesting to others?  Also 
see the Acme:: series on cpan of course)

Is Acme::Bleach portable? And has anyone tried it in combination with par?  (Any nasty 
side effects?)

Ed W

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