Larry Wall - Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

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Wall, Larry. Usenet post. comp.lang.perl, 1992.

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