Acme/Buckaroo version 1.01

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USING THIS MODULE CHANGES THE SOURCE FILE IT IS IN !!!!! IF YOU DO A 'USE BUCKAROO.PM;' THE REST OF THE FILE AFTER THIS WILL BE CHANGED FOREVER IN A WAY YOU MAY NOT LIKE.

USE THIS MODULE ONLY IN A TEST FILE THAT YOU CAN THROW AWAY !!! USE THIS MODULE ONLY IN A TEST FILE THAT YOU CAN THROW AWAY !!!

DESCRIPTION

Acme::Buckaroo - Buckaroo Banzai Characters Infest Your Code!

The first time you run this program, the entire text of the program after the 'use Acme::Buckaroo;' is converted (character by character) into characters from the movie "Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eigth Dimension" (and some other phrases, too).

The program will work (or not!) exactly as it did before it was converted, but the code will be a somewhat endearing tribute to a movie, instead of a clean, complete, clearly commented set of lines of Perl code.

if you want to convert your program BACK into Perl, you must edit the Acme::Buckaroo.pm module and turn on debugging (change the line, "my $debugmode = 0;" to the line, "my $debugmode = 1;" and then run the script again. As it executes, it will translate the program back. Capture the output of this and you have your program back.

Acme::Buckaroo came about because the modules Acme::Buffy, Acme::Morse, Acme::Pony, and Acme::Bleach were somewhat cryptically written. This author believes that CODE SHOULD BE SIMPLE and CLEAR to read and understand. Code that isn't clear is far less value. And, since these modules are for learning or FUN anyway, I might as well start here.

As someone who has taught beginners to use Perl, I've seen the problems caused by using Perl idioms where typing a few more characters can make maintenance possible and even quite easy.

SYNOPSIS

Before Buckaroo-ing:

        use Acme::Buckaroo;
        print "Watch 'Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension' Today!";

After Bucaroo-ing:

        use Acme::Buckaroo;
        Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eigth Dimension Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eigth Dimension
        Bari Dreiband-Burman    General Catburd George Stokes   Frank James Sparks
        Gary Hellerstein        Glenn Campbell  Buckaroo Banzai Penny Priddy
        Damon Hines     New Jersey      Glenn Campbell  Doreen A. Dixon
        Francine Lembi  Buckaroo Banzai Girl Named John Scooter Lindley
        Gordon Ecker Jr.        Doreen A. Dixon Fred J. Koenekamp       New Jersey
        George Stokes   Gary Hymes      Gary Hymes      Buckaroo Banzai
        Scooter Lindley New Jersey      Gary Hellerstein        Grovers Mills
        New Jersey      Frank James Sparks      Buckaroo Banzai Sandra Banzai
        Doreen A. Dixon George Stokes   Gary Hymes      Gerald Peterson
        Gerald Peterson Buckaroo Banzai Glenn Campbell  Francine Lembi
        Edward Morey    Buckaroo Banzai Perfect Tommy   Glenn Campbell
        Francine Lembi  Buckaroo Banzai Smolensk USSR   Frank James Sparks
        Gary Daigler    Edward Morey    Gary Hellerstein        Gerald Peterson
        Frank James Sparks      Gary Hymes      Gary Hellerstein        Girl Named John
        Buckaroo Banzai Colette Emanuel Gary Hymes      Eddie Marks
        New Jersey      Gregory Jein    Defense Sec. McKinley   Penny Priddy
        Planet 10       Bari Dreiband-Burman

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

       perl Makefile.PL
       make
       make test
       make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires NO other modules or libraries. If you go into the source of Buckaroo.pm and look, you'll see there is a debug mode. If you turn this on, you'll be able to watch it as it works. However, debug mode requires the module Data::Dumper, a fantastically useful module that you should have by default in Perl installations > 5.6.

DEDICATION

I'd like to dedicate this module to Mr. Damian Conway, who has bettered Perl and the lives of those in the Perl-using community by vast amounts, and continues to do good work. Someday I'd like to buy him a beer.

The book, by the way, is "Object Oriented Perl", by Damian Conway and Randall L. Schwartz, published by Manning Publications Company; ISBN: 1884777791; (August 1999).

Also thanks to Jesse who reported a bug in this documentation and introduced me to the CPAN bug tracking database, available to everyone to report bugs in CPAN modules or scripts. The address for this is http://rt.cpan.org. If you know of a bug in a CPAN module, report it there!

EXPORT

None by default.

SEE ALSO

Acme::Buffy, Acme::Morse, Acme::Pony, Acme::Bleach, and L<perl>.

DIAGNOSTICS

Cannot Buckaroo '%s'

        Acme::Buckaroo could not modify the source file.
        Are the file permissions set?

Cannot Buckaroo again on '%s'

        Acme::Buckaroo couldn't read the source file for
        whatever reason. Ooops.

AUTHOR

Kevin J. Rice, http://www.JustAnyone.com, E<lt>KevinRice@cpan.orgE<gt>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

(see http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html for details)

Kindly request: Please reference this author (Kevin J. Rice) when you refer to this module.