After reading the summary, I realize I might have gone a bit over-
board on the obfuscation, and must offer my deepest apologies.
As such, I would like to display my utmost disregard for the mentioned
medical consequences, and quickly decompose a short snippet of code
Matthew mentioned:
*a=e=?=,???,:??,?,Email
Allow me to add some explanatory whitespace and bracing:
*a = (e = ?=), (!?? ? ?, : ??), (?,), Email
Almost all of the question marks are character literals literals; I
resolve:
*a = (e = 61), (!63 ? 44 : 63), (44), Email
The tertiary conditional is, of course, completely unnecessary, but it
gave me the possibility of writing ???..:…, so I think it’s
justifiable.
e is assigned ?= simply because it made it harder to decipher.
The content of a is, in the end, [61, 63, 44, Email] (actually, Email
is .downcase!'d, but that’s irrelevant). The first three elements in
the array is all that’s used, I could just as easily have made the
last comma a semi-colon, but I don’t like them.
Hope that shed some light on the matter.