From: "Mikael Høilund" <mikael@...>
Date: 2008-05-23T11:19:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Obfuscated Email

After reading the summary, I realize I might have gone a bit over- 
board on the obfuscation, and must offer my deepest apologies.

As such, I would like to display my utmost disregard for the mentioned  
medical consequences, and quickly decompose a short snippet of code  
Matthew mentioned:

*a=e=?=,!????,:??,?,,Email

Allow me to add some explanatory whitespace and bracing:

*a = (e = ?=), (!?? ? ?, : ??), (?,), Email

Almost all of the question marks are character literals literals; I  
resolve:

*a = (e = 61), (!63 ? 44 : 63), (44), Email

The tertiary conditional is, of course, completely unnecessary, but it  
gave me the possibility of writing !???...:..., so I think it's  
justifiable.

e is assigned ?= simply because it made it harder to decipher.

The content of a is, in the end, [61, 63, 44, Email] (actually, Email  
is .downcase!'d, but that's irrelevant). The first three elements in  
the array is all that's used, I could just as easily have made the  
last comma a semi-colon, but I don't like them.

Hope that shed some light on the matter.

-- 
Mikael Høilund