YOU

You, of course, are fantastic, but not all of the developers you interact with will understand the code you produce. Sometimes your code is just too clever for mortal colleagues to understand. For their benefit magic can be enabled.

MAGIC

The purpose of the magic pragma is to indicate to the next developer, who may well be yourself, that the enclosed code is sufficiently advanced.

For example:

# Engage Thompson;                # (ie. you are not expected to understand this)
use magic;                        # use religion; or use science; also "work".

not exp log srand xor s qq qx xor
s x x length uc ord and print chr
ord for qw q join use sub tied qx
xor eval xor print qq q q xor int
eval lc q m cos and print chr ord
for qw y abs ne open tied hex exp
ref y m xor scalar srand print qq
q q xor int eval lc qq y sqrt cos
and print chr ord for qw x printf
each return local x y or print qq
s s and eval q s undef or oct xor
time xor ref print chr int ord lc
foreach qw y hex alarm chdir kill
exec return y s gt sin sort split

no magic;

QED.

SCIENCE

Magic, of course, is bullshit. People who know this and nevertheless want to know how the world works are recommended to use science because science works. Are you reading this? That's how you know.

For example:

use science;
<anything>

RELIGION

Unfortunately some people still want to know how the world works even though they're too smart to believe in magic but too stupid to understand science. For these people there is religion. And may god help them.

No examples. Read the good book.

Books.