Acme::Bleach(3pm)

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✨ Acme::Bleach ✨

the Perl module that is literally called "For really clean programs" and bestie… it means it 💅

okay so this is the Acme::Bleach page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and no cap it's one of the funniest things in the whole CPAN. buckle up 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

Acme::Bleach — for real, really clean programs ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

use Acme::Bleach;

print "Hello world";

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so here's the tea, bestie 🫖 — the first time you run a program under use Acme::Bleach, the module goes into your source file and removes all the unsightly printable characters from it. not a few. all of them. the unsightly ones. gone. ✨

and the code still works! it continues to work exactly as it did before, no cap. it just looks like this now:

use Acme::Bleach;

the way that it went from a whole program to one single tidy line… it's giving minimalism, it's giving clean girl aesthetic, it's giving iconic. 💅

😭 DIAGNOSTICS 😭

  • Can't bleach '%s' — Acme::Bleach could not access the source file so it could modify it. 🥲 (yes, bleaching needs to get to your file. doors closed = no glow-up.)
  • Can't rebleach '%s' — Acme::Bleach could not access the source file to execute it. 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read the lore, iykyk 🧚

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Damian Conway (as if you couldn't guess) 🎀

he said it himself and honestly? slay. he knew. 🔥

   Copyright (c) 2001, Damian Conway. All Rights Reserved.
 This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed
and/or modified under the terms of the Perl Artistic License
     (see http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html)

free software, artistic license, we love a generous king 🫶

and that's the whole page bestie!! this was documented in perl v5.36.0 back on 2022-10-13, and yeah that's the source + date dropping at the end like a lil signature ✍️ — go make your programs unreadable and gorgeous, mwah 💋✨

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