NAME junk - use junk SYNOPSIS use 5.010; use junk KnRlaCdiaXRlPSp0YWRwb2xlJ3dheD0qZGFyZSd5b3U9c3Vie3BvcH0K; no junk; say bite teh wax tadpole "monkey brains" if you dare "punkass"; DESCRIPTION The "junk" module performs two very different tasks depending on whether you type "use junk" or "no junk". << import >> "use junk" takes each of its arguments, performs some unescaping on each, decodes them as base64, and then passes them each to "eval". The unescaping is as follows: "_D0" => "0" "_D1" => "1" "_D2" => "2" "_D3" => "3" "_D4" => "4" "_D5" => "5" "_D6" => "6" "_D7" => "7" "_D8" => "8" "_D9" => "9" "_P" => "+" "_S" => "/" This allows base64 to be encoded as Perl barewords (provided you're not in strict mode). << unimport >> "no junk" is equivalent to saying "use strict 'subs', 'vars'". I don't know about you, but 'refs' is the only part of strict that I ever disable, so "no junk" just enables all of strict except 'refs'. BUGS Please report any bugs to . AUTHOR Toby Inkster . COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Toby Inkster. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.