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

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

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Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.

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

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