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=head1 NAME

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

=head1 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

=head1 DESCRIPTION

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 $debug_mode = 0;" to the line, "my $debug_mode = 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.

=head1 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.
Good book, dude!

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!

=head1 EXPORT

None by default.

=head1 SEE ALSO

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

=head1 DIAGNOSTICS

=over 4

=item C<Cannot Buckaroo '%s'>

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

=item C<Cannot Buckaroo again on '%s'>

Acme::Buckaroo couldn't read the source file to execute it.  Are the file permissions set?

=back

=head1 AUTHOR

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

=head1 COPYRIGHT