Barcod...x::Reed(3pm)

🦋 NAME 🦋

Barcode::DataMatrix::Reed — it's the renamed version of Algorithm::DataMatrix::Reed, bestie. Same energy, new name tag. 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so, real talk: this is literally just Algorithm::DataMatrix::Reed wearing a different name. It was written by Mons Anderson, and it came from http://code.google.com/p/perl-ex/ — that's the origin story, periodt. 🫶

Now if you wanna get a rough idea of how this code is structured, go peek at:

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_codes_for_coders#Reed.E2.80.93Solomon_codes

⚠️ hold up, important: that link is not the basis of the implementation — like, we genuinely don't know what the basis was (this is unknown, fr fr). But it does help explain how Reed-Solomon encoding gets implemented, which means it helps you understand how the code below actually works. so it's useful, just not the source. no cap. 🎀

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🐛 DEBUG

Controls whether or not debugging output gets printed. That's it. That's the whole vibe check. ✨

🔥 mult (x, y)

Multiplies two Galois field element values together and hands you back the result. Math but make it slay. 💖

👑 encode (ai, j)

Encodes the message array and returns it. Iconic behavior, honestly. 🌸

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and that's the whole page, babe — you ate it. 🦋 This one's from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, shipped with perl v5.34.0, dated 2022-06-08. mwah, go forth and encode responsibly. 💜🌈⭐