Hi Dave,

> Has anyone done any perl fuzz-testing - that is, written something that 
> generates valid but silly code in an attempt to find errors in the 
> interpreter or in a module?

Is Acme::BadExample what you're looking for? The module that spawned a
brilliant and enlightening talk by Jos at both YAPC::Europe and LPW last
year.

[1] http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Acme-BadExample-1.00/

> It seems like a worthwhile thing to do, but I'm struggling to imagine 
> what it would look like, particularly for testing pure-perl modules.

It was used to test PPI.

Barbie.
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