[ooqr]

I've actually run into methods defined from names concatenated from multiple strings, i.e. methods you can't even use grep over the whole codebase to find. This has left me with a lingering vague fear ever since.

[bitwize]

I've seen worse.

A system that would load chunks of code out of MySQL and eval them in place.

Magic variables with magic meanings... shudder

[kazinator]

Sounds like the coder was might have been imitating the idea of SQL stored procedures.

[bitwize]

Actually he was imitating Lotus Notes...